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Title: Are There Different English Translations?
Post by: fastscirocco on February 16, 2005, 11:43:15 am

Still on the fence about buying a Zaurus C3000, but I reaaaalllly want one.

What I am trying to determine is if there is a difference in the english translations offered by the different retailers, and what I can do myself using the readily available instructions.

Can anyone provide input on this? Dynamism claims they do ALOT more than anyone else.

Thanks
Chris

Title: Are There Different English Translations?
Post by: Kerensa on February 16, 2005, 06:08:04 pm

Here is a previous post on conversion methods.
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...086&#entry54086 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8866&st=0&p=54086&#entry54086)

The first post here comments on Dynamism https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showt...indpost&p=53973 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8846&view=findpost&p=53973)

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Kerensa

Title: Are There Different English Translations?
Post by: ashikase on February 16, 2005, 07:02:24 pm

The companies don't actually do any translating themselves; most of the default Zaurus programs already contain English strings. Instead, the companies basically just change some settings to force the English strings to be displayed instead of the Japanese.

This can all be done by yourself as well (or by using one of the available scripts, such as Stubear's).

- ashikase
- anpachi, gifu, japan

Title: Are There Different English Translations?
Post by: fastscirocco on February 16, 2005, 10:59:23 pm

Thanks for the replies, that's what I thought.

Funny though is when I called Dynamism today, the rep on the phone
tried to convince me that they do something I can't do.



Live n Learn
Thanks again

Title: Are There Different English Translations?
Post by: lpotter on February 17, 2005, 01:00:04 am

You mean "untranslate". Default language in Qtopia is English. There is no 'translate to English' in Qtopia.

To "untranslate", all you need to do is edit the locale.conf in ~/Settings and change Language to en_US, and then from commandline, run
qcop 'QPE/System' 'language(QString)' 'en_US'
Probably need to add an English inputmethod.