Help translate ParaView into your language!

June 21, 2023

Mathieu Westphal, Francois Mazen and Sonia Ayme

Kitware is happy to introduce the official ParaView translation platform, weblate.kitware.com!

On this platform, you can create an account and start translating ParaView today!

What is it ?

A fully automatic translation system (see this post for the gritty details) that recovers English words and sentences from ParaView source code and exposes them in a web interface where anyone can create and account and interactively translate the string into a subset of languages.

Where will my translations go ?

The tranlations will be integrated weekly in the paraview-translations repository, which is built into the nightly release of ParaView and, ultimately, into the next release of ParaView.

Which languages are available to be translated ?

For now the following languages are available:

Deutsch
Espanol
Français
Italiano
Nederlands
日本語
한국어

This list will most likely be expanded in the future, if you would like to see another language available for translation, please reach out to Kitware.

Wait, is ParaView translated in some languages already ?

No, there is no complete translation yet. However one can already try a partially translated ParaView by modifying the “Interface Language” settings available in ParaView nightly and from ParaView 5.12 onwards. Not all languages listed above are made available in the binary release, but they will be once the language in question reach a translation threshold.

We will make announcements when specific translations of ParaView have reached this threshold and are added in the binary release.
For now, only a French version is provided as an example but we expect this language to reach the threshold soon anyway.

How do I get started ?

Create an account on weblate.kitware.com
Click on Projects -> Browse all projects -> ParaView
Click on Languages
Click on the language you want to translate to
Click on a component not yet complete
Click on the “Translate” button on the right
Start translating!
Pro tips:
- Use “Zen Mode” to be even more efficient in your translation work
- Use the String information panel to get insights of the context