About change language

[yaphone]

I compiled OpenCPN in windows.
(Compiling - Windows | Official OpenCPN Homepage)
and I want to change the language to chinese，how can I do?

I don't understand this web (Internationalization | Official OpenCPN Homepage)
is anyone can teach me,thanks a lot!!!

[ptulp]

Originally Posted by yaphone

I compiled OpenCPN in windows.
(Compiling - Windows | Official OpenCPN Homepage)
and I want to change the language to chinese，how can I do?

I don't understand this web (Internationalization | Official OpenCPN Homepage)
is anyone can teach me,thanks a lot!!!

Start OpenCPN, select Options then select User Interface.

Under Language select the Chinese language.
Click OK and restart OpenCPN.

That should do it.
Peter

[yaphone]

Dear Peter,
thank you for your answer,but the language in OpenCPN only can choose English,is any idea that I can put chinese language in the Interface of OpenCPN?

[nohal]

yaohone...
Any reason you don't use the prebuilt packages we provide. If you run the local build without installing it, it certainly won't find the language files necessary.

Pavel

[yaphone]

Dear Pavel,
yes, I followed Compiling - Windows steps to make my OpenCPN,is it mean I lose some step to compile the OpenCPN? thank you for your suggest!

[nohal]

I don't know what and if you missed, really Would say that possibly building the installer, installing it and running the installed product, not from the build directory?
Again, any reason why you don't just use the packages we provide?

Pavel

[yaphone]

Dear Pavel,
because I want to use Visual to make the Plugin by myself, or I will try how to write the plugin and use it to become a package,thank you for your suggest,too

[nohal]

Well, I would suggest you first write the plugin's code and then care about the translations. OpenCPN's primary language is English, so it is kind of a good idea to use it as your plugin can than be translated at https://crowdin.com/project/opencpn as all the rest of them...