# The old Transifex thread (was: Translating Syncthing)
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [July 16, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550 "2014-07-16T12:06:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/1 "2014-07-16T12:06:17Z")
2023 edit: Please see [Translating Syncthing (on Weblate)](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/translating-syncthing-on-weblate/19772)
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2014-2023 content:
To contribute translations, sign up at [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/syncthing/). Joining a team for an existing language is automatic. New languages unfortunately need to be approved; I try to get these done within 24 hours. When picking a new language, I recommend going for the more general dialect unless the difference is essential; i.e. chose `Danish` over `Danish (Denmark)` and similar.
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Original:
A while ago someone proposed that the Syncthing UI should be translated to other languages. I kind of shot it down because I thought things were changing too fast for it to be practical. I’m reconsidering that. If I were to set up a project on Transifex, are there people interested in helping out translating the GUI to their native language? The base language would be English, I myself can contribute Swedish.
(There’s some scaffolding required to accomplish this, apart from the whole transifex thing; basically extracting all language strings and rebuilding the UI to be language aware.)
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### Author:  [@Arneko](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Arneko)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/2 "2014-07-16T15:44:00Z")
Given the success Syncthing has already, I doubt you will have problems finding translators. Is syncthing using utf8 by default?
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### Author:  [@Tintamarre](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tintamarre)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/3 "2014-07-16T19:32:41Z")
I could help with french, dutch and spanish.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2014, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/4 "2014-07-18T09:48:54Z")
Cool. I’ll do the relevant groundwork, add the possibility for localization in v0.9.
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### Author:  [@kattunga](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kattunga)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/5 "2014-07-18T12:45:49Z")
I could help you with spanish
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### Author:  [@sonOfRa](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/sonOfRa)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/6 "2014-07-18T23:53:45Z")
I can work on german translations.
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### Author:  [@s5unty](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/s5unty)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/7 "2014-07-20T02:50:47Z")
+1 Simplified Chinese
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### Author:  [@alexxtasi](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/alexxtasi)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/8 "2014-07-20T10:02:04Z")
I can help with Greek
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2014, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/9 "2014-07-20T11:44:50Z")
For interested parties, here’s the project on Transifex:
> **[The syncthing translation project on Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/syncthing/syncthing/)**
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> Translate syncthing into your own language.
I’ll get back with instructions within a few days for how to test out the translation on your local copy of syncthing (so you don’t have to wait for me to build it).
I started working on the swedish translation and quickly noted that translation is both tricky and boring. Please post any clarification requests here and I’ll add notes to transifex for the future.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2014, 6:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/10 "2014-07-22T18:41:15Z")
Here’s a guide to using the translation files locally:
> [@Using custom translation files](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/using-custom-translation-files/576):
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> So you’re helping out to translate syncthing on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/syncthing/)? Thanks! And you want to use your new translations with with syncthing, of course. Here’s how to do that. First of all, you need [syncthing v0.9.0-beta2](https://github.com/calmh/syncthing/releases/tag/v0.9.0-beta2) or newer. Beware that this is currently a bit more beta than usual and doesn’t interoperate at all with v0.8.x. See [v0.9.0 beta testing](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/v0-9-0-beta1-testing/565) for some pointers. Then you go to Transifex, navigate to the project and click the “GUI strings” resource. You’ll get a dialog where you can click “Down…
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### Author:  [@Tintamarre](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Tintamarre)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/11 "2014-07-23T12:08:55Z")
Thx. I did the french translation. It might not be perfect but I tested it (on 0.9beta3 and with #?lang=fr) and it pleases me.
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### Author:  [@kattunga](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/kattunga)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2014, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/12 "2014-07-24T22:41:27Z")
I did the Spanish translation. I’ll be reviewing it carefully this weekend.
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### Author:  [@mihaiile](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/mihaiile)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2014, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/13 "2014-07-25T11:29:31Z")
Just did the Portuguese translation. While it is not really perfect I think it works as a first version. I will update parts when I get more inspiration on some of them.
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### Author:  [@retgoat](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/retgoat)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2014, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/14 "2014-07-28T11:26:59Z")
I can help with Russian.
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### Author:  [@retgoat](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/retgoat)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/15 "2014-07-29T01:15:28Z")
Just added Pull request with Russian translations
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2014, 6:33am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/16 "2014-07-29T06:33:17Z")
Thanks a lot everyone for your efforts!
I update all translations from Transifex before each release (although there haven’t been many translation capable-releases yet) so there’s no need to file requests on updated translations.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2014, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/17 "2014-07-29T11:26:16Z")
> [@retgoat](#):
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> Just added Pull request with Russian translations
Russian looks to be 69% complete as of now; did you forget to hit “save” in transifex? 😉
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### Author:  [@retgoat](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/retgoat)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/18 "2014-07-30T03:26:58Z")
> [@calmh](#):
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> hit “save” in transifex?
Yeap, my fault. I’ve just fixed that. Thanks! 🙂
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### Author:  [@thunderbirdtr](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/thunderbirdtr)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2014, 4:02am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/19 "2014-07-30T04:02:52Z")
I want to help translate to “Turkish” language and I already did request for it.
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### Author:  [@C4K3](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/C4K3)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2014, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/the-old-transifex-thread-was-translating-syncthing/550/20 "2014-08-03T08:18:46Z")
Requested Danish translation 🙂
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