Flash Movie Player translation guide

At this time Flash Movie Player has translations (in the order of appearance) :

English	Italian	Russian	Chinese simplified	Chinese traditional	Spanish
Ukrainian	Korean	Hungarian	Catalan	Japanese	German
French	Dutch	Czech	Portuguese	Finnish	Galician
Arabic	Turkish	Greek	Polish	Swedish	Vietnamese
Bulgarian	Hebrew	Slovenian	Slovak	Norwegian	Valencian
Croatian	Urdu	Lithuanian	Persian	Thai	Latvian
Serbian	Malay	Danish	Romanian

You can freely translate Flash Movie Player from the English into your own language. Here are the instructions:

1. All language files placed in the {Flash Movie Player}\language\ directory and have .lng extension. English template language file English.txt can be found in the \language directory too. Copy this template file English.txt to the new file with the name of your language and .lng extension (Deutsch.lng for example).
2. Open this .lng file in any text editor (Notepad, Wordpad, etc.) and translate quoted strings after the equals sign (=) into your language. For example, for the line

   FileMI.Caption="&File"

   you'll need to translate only the "&File" part.

   Here are some more translation tips:

   • Possibly do not translate "Flash Movie Player" in the strings, as it is the software name.
   • All not alphanumerical characters must remain the same as in original, do not change any "%s" constructions, spaces, quotes, hyphens. Translate only the text.
   • Preceding ampersand sign (&) used to indicate the menu accelerator key and enable the user to access a menu command from the keyboard by pressing Alt + the appropriate letter. The letter after the ampersand appears underlined in the menu.
3. Specify language information in [Lang] section of file.

   Fill in the following properties:

   • Name (Name of language as it will be listed in the languages box)
   • Author (Your name/other information you want to specify)
   • Description (Description of your translation, any comments)
   • Charset (Font charset, see below).

   If your language includes specific non-English characters, you can specify font charset for your translation as follows:

   Charset=SHIFTJIS

   All available Charset values:

   ANSI	ANSI characters.
   EASTEUROPE	Includes diacritical marks for eastern european countries.
   BALTIC	Baltic characters.
   RUSSIAN	Cyrillic characters.
   SHIFTJIS	Japanese shift-JIS characters.
   HANGEUL	Korean characters (Wansung).
   JOHAB	Korean characters (Johab).
   GB2312	Simplified Chinese characters (mainland China).
   CHINESEBIG5	Traditional Chinese characters (Taiwanese).
   HEBREW	Hebrew characters.
   ARABIC	Arabic characters.
   GREEK	Greek characters.
   TURKISH	Turkish characters.
   VIETNAMESE	Vietnamese characters.
   THAI	Thai characters.

4. Test the program after the translation. Try to check out all dialogs and strings of the program.
5. Please send us file you translated, so we will include it in the player installation. Use email address for contact.

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