gvSIG-Desktop 1.10. User Manual

If we want to complete or fix the translation of one of the available languages in gvSIG, we can use the export to update option.

For that we will select the row of the language we would like to update from the table and then click on the Actualizar button.

Selection of the reference language

We will be asked to select a reference language. Specially if we are going to complete a language translation, we will need another language that is complete from which we will translate the pending chains.

Saving exported file

Next there will be a dialog that will allow us to save the ZIP file with the export to a location within the file system of our computer. By default it will named in English with the .zip extension.

Once it is saved, we can unzip the zip file and to proceed to edit the language translation we would like to complete. The files with the text chains that are exported always have the following format:

text_[CODIGO-IDIOMA]_[CODIGO_PAIS]_[CODIGO-VARIANTE].properties

• CODIGO-IDIOMA: 2-letter ID for the language according to the ISO 639 standard.
• CODIGO_PAIS: 2-letter ID for the country according to the ISO 3166 standard.
• CODIGO-VARIANTE: variant ID.

The variant and country codes are optional. In the case of the Spanish language it will not have language code either since it is by default the base language in gvSIG.

Once the editing of the language translation to be completed is finished, we can create a new ZIP file with the content of the files extracted from the export zip file. It is important to include all the files since in the locales.csv file there is information that allows gvSIG to identify what language we are updating and which one is its properties file.

After that we could use the install or update a language options to install the changes as it is explained in the previous section.