06.23.09

Camino in Chinese and other localization news

Posted in Camino at 2:08 am by Smokey

If you read Monday’s Camino 1.6.8 release announcement carefully, you know that we added a new localization, Simplified Chinese, to Camino Multilingual. Thanks to Tianhao for all of his hard work on this translation and for providing a Simplified Chinese localization of Camino for the first time since Camino 0.8.5! This is the fourth language we’ve added since Camino 1.6 shipped, and the second new localization after Catalan (Spanish and Czech, which had been part of Camino 1.5.x, were not quite ready for Camino 1.6 and shipped in 1.6.1 instead).

In other localization news, late last week Jan Jamsek arrived and notified the localization community he had begun a Slovenian translation. The Turkish team (which is targeting Camino 2 for its first release) also recently provided a status update on that localization. In addition to these teams, volunteers have started work on Galician and Hebrew localizations since Camino 1.6 has shipped. We’re excited about the possibility of shipping all of these languages in future releases of Camino!

As always, if you’re interested in seeing Camino in your language, please visit the caminol10n project, join the mailing list, and learn how you can help. You don’t need to have many computer or software skills, and the caminol10n mailing list is full of existing Camino translators who are always willing to answer questions if you encounter problems. The list of registered contributors may have other speakers of your language who can help you, or there may even be a localization effort underway that you can help complete (some languages just need reviewers/proofreaders—the only skill required for that task is your language and the ability to use Camino). We hope to see your language in Camino Multilingual soon!

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