Instructions[]
The standard language of the CHDK firmware is English (or German, for the CHDKDE builds), but it has a multi-language interface now. Here is how you can change your language:
- open one of the following links and copy the language text file (the text in the large grey box).
- use a text editor like Notepad to make a new textfile, paste the language text into it and name the file {nameofthelanguage}.lng
- make a new folder called LANG in the CHDK directory of your SD card
- copy your .lng file into the LANG folder.
- Go to CHDK main menu>CHDK Settings>Menu settings->Language & Fonts and choose your .lng file and the appropriate codepage.
Please note that the built-in font supports many codepages (=many different national characters (éèîäüß)), but there are few RBF fonts with other codepages than Win1251(Cyrillic). If you have chosen a RBF font but want to switch back to the original built-in font, just choose an "illegal" RBF font (Try to load a uBASIC script as a RBF font, for example). Tutorial how to make RBF fonts.
Some language files are already included in the "full" download packages from the Download page, |
Languages[]
NOTE the list below is very obsolete
- Belarusian (Win1251) - Last Update: (unknown)
- Bulgarian (Win1251) - Last Update: build #148
- Catalan (Win1252) - Last Update: trunk r 4153. And help
- Czech (Win1250) - Last Update: build #148
- Czech for AllBest (Win1250) - Last Update: build #49
- Czech for MoreBest (Win1250) - Last Update: build #499
- Danish (Win1252) - #148
- Dutch (Win1252) - Last Update: Allbest #51
- English (any codepage)
- Estonian (Win1252)
- Finnish (Win1252)
- French for Autobuild (Win1252)
- French for Allbest Build (Win1252) - #50 (obsolete)
- French for Autobuild (Win1252) -build 0.7.5, revision #565 (obsolete)
- German (Win1252) - #148
- German_allbest (Win1252) - allbest build 31
- Greek (Win1253)
- Hungarian (Win1252) (Utolsó frissítés: Allbest 0.5.5)
- Indonesia
- Italian (Win1252) - Ultimo aggiornamento: build #148
- Norwegian - First version
- Polish (Win1250)
- Portuguese(Brazil) (Win1252)
- Romana (Win1252) de ursamajor. Cine doreste poate imbunatati traducerea.
- Russian (Win1251)
- Russian (Win1251) - Last Update: 03.01.2008 Allbest build #16
- Russian2 (Win1251) - Last Update: 16.09.2008 CHDK build (Juciphox) 0.5.1-499
- Serbian (Win1250)
- Slovak (Win1250) - Last Update: V1.1 29.1.2008 GrAnd build #148
- Slovak 2 (Win1250) - Last Update: V2.40 9.4.2008 Allbest build #50
- Slovak 3 (Win1250) - Last Update: V3.02 27.8.2008 Morebest build #491
- Slovak 4 (Win1250) - Last Update: V4.02 19.2.2009 Autobuild #712
- Spanish (Win1252)
- Spanish (Spain) - Last Update: build #875
- Spanish2 (Win1252) - For Allbest Build: build #50
- Swedish (Win1252) - Senaste uppdatering: build #148
- Turkish (Win1254) - For Autobuild, Last Update: November 7, 2010
- Ukrainian (Win1251) - Last Update: 01.01.2011
- Simplified Chinese (Win936 or Unicode?)
- Traditional Chinese (Win950 or Unicode)
How to add a language[]
If you want to help translating the CHDK into your language, you can do so here: Start a new wiki page for your language, copy the english.lng in there and put some <pre> </pre> tags around it because it is preformatted text. Now you can start your translation.
Note: // is a commentary, \n is a line break.
Post the translated file in the forum
If there is no appropriate codepage for a particular language it can be added easily. Grand just needs the info to map of unicode characters to single byte, like this.