The way Sim File Maid learns a language, is by someone translating a bunch
of text to a given language. That translation is put in its own file in
the langs/ folder. So if you did a French translation, you might
call your file lang.fr.txt or lang.de.txt for German, or lang.plat.txt
for Pig Latin. The .txt is not required, just the starting lang.
is required. I use the .txt so I can double-click on a file and have
it open in Notepad. You could call it lang.longislandslang for all
I care. Although if you submit your
language pack to me (and please do) I reserve the right to rename/edit
your pack.
Format
A language pack begins with two lines of "header" information.
The first line is the formal name for the language- This is how users will
see the language in their language options. Eg. "English (US)"
or "East Bornean", etc. The second line is your chance to be famous.
This is where you can put your name and e-mail address (or just name, or
pseudonym, or company, or whatever). This "author" line is displayed
for all to see when they view the "credits" (regardless of the
language pack they are using) and gives you +25 to Karma.
Following those two lines, leading and trailing whitespace are ignored.
Any line starting with a sharp (#) or a single quote (') is considered a
comment and that line will be ignored. Blank lines are also ignored (or
lines of whitespace).
When translated, the "name" (FILEEXISTS in this example) MUST
remain intact (case does not matter). Please note the elipses (...): Elipses
are used when I need to shoehorn some data into a sentence. In this example
the path and name of the file that exists replaced the elipses. YOU MUST
PRESERVE THE ELIPSES, and preferably place them appropriately within
the statement.
If you don't translate a given data line it will be displayed in English.
