KDE Localization

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The main resources for localization and other info regarding KDE's localization teams is at the KDE Localization website, so please check there for more information.

This wiki page provides an overview of localization at KDE.

Internationalization (i18n) vs. Localization (l10n)

What is the difference between internationalization and localization?

Generally speaking, programmers internationalize their software by writing applications so they can be run in any locale. Translation teams localize software by taking the internationalized applications and adapting them for a specific locale.

Localization Team Management Tool (LTMT)

During the l10n BoF at Desktop Summit 2011, we realized that we had duplicated services and code doing the some thing (at least this was true for the French and the Italian teams): managing the translation process, mainly file booking.

So, we joined our efforts to have a good working tool to manage the translation process which could extend existing l10n.kde.org website and get the best from existing tools.

Localization Issues

Localization Teams

In the table below an overview of localization teams within KDE is provided; see the column "Team (language code)" for team-specific links.

For additional information, see the resources at KDE Localization website.

If the team of the language you are searching for is not here, please check the KDE Localization web site. If the language is also not there, contact [email protected] to request more information on how to create a new team.

The tables are ordered by language code, e.g., de Deutsch ('German') appears before el for Ελληνικά ('Greek').

Web Translation Teams

These languages are included in the translation list for kde.org.

Localization/Translation
Team (language code) Wiki Chat Mailing Lists
اللغات (Arabic) Arabic Team (ar) -- -- kde-l10n-ar
bosanski (Bosnian) Bosnian Team (bs) -- -- --
Català (Catalan) Catalan Team (ca) -- -- kde-i18n-ca
Català - Valencià (Catalan - Valencian) Catalan (Valencian) Team (ca@valencia) -- -- kde-i18n-ca
Český (Czech) Czech Team (cs) wiki.l10n.cz/wiki/Návody/Jak_překládat_Kde/ -- kde-i18n-cs
Deutsch (German) German Team (de) German (de) -- kde-i18n-de, www-de
Ελληνικά (Greek) Greek Team (el), Info kde-i18n-el, lists.hellug.gr (INACTIVE)
English (British) British English Team (en_GB) -- -- kde-l10n-en_gb
Esperanto Esperanto Team (eo), Info kde-i18n-eo
Español (Spanish) Spanish Team (es), Info -- -- kde-l10n-es
Eesti (Estonian) Estonian Team (et)
Euskara (Basque) Basque Team (eu) -- -- --
فارسی (Persian) Persian Team (fa) kde-i18n-fa
Suomi (Finnish) Finnish Team (fi) Finnish (fi) -- kde-l10n-fi
Français (French) French Team (fr), Info French (fr) -- kde-francophone
Galego (Galician) Galician Team (gl) Galician (gl) -- --
Magyar (Hungarian) Hungarian Team (hu) -- -- kde-l10n-hu
Interlingua Interlingua Team (ia), Blog -- -- kde-l10n-ia
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian) Indonesian Team (id) -- -- --
Italiano (Italian) Italian Team (it), Tradurre per KDE Italian (it) Matrix: #kde-i18n-it:kde.org kde-i18n-it
日本語 (Japanese) Japanese Team (ja) -- -- kde-jp
한국어 (Korean) Korean (한국어) Team (ko) Korean (ko) -- kde-kr
Lietuvių (Lithuanian) Lithuanian Team (lt) kde-i18n-lt
मराठी (Marathi) Marathi Team (mr) -- -- --
မြန်မာ (Burmese) Burmese Team (my) -- -- kde-l10n-my
Plattdüütsch (Low Saxon) Low Saxon Team (nds), [nds.i18n.kde.org Info]
Nederlands (Dutch) Dutch Team (nl) -- -- kde-i18n-nl
Norsk - nynorsk (Norwegian - nynorsk) Norwegian Nynorsk Team (nn) -- -- (see KDE Localization link)
Polski (Polish) Polish Team (pl) -- -- kdei18n-pl (at SourceForge)
Português (Portuguese) Portuguese Team (pt) kde-i18n-pt
Português brasileiro (Brazilian Portuguese) Brazilian Portuguese Team (pt_BR) -- Matrix: #kdebrasil-traducao kde-i18n-pt_br
Русский (Russian) Russian Team (ru) -- -- kde-russian
Slovenčina (Slovak) Slovak Team (sk) Lokalizácia KDE (at sk.wikibooks.org) #kde-sk on irc.i.cz kde-sk (at linux.sk) (last post: 2013)
Slovenščina (Slovenian) Slovenian Team (sl) Wiki (at wiki.lugos.si) -- lugos-slo (at lugos.si)
Svenska (Swedish) Swedish Team (sv), Info -- kde-l10n-tr
Türkçe (Turkish) Turkish Team (tr) -- kde-l10n-tr
ئۇيغۇرچە (Uyghur) Uyghur Team (ug)
Українська (Ukrainian) Ukrainian Team (uk) -- -- kde-i18n-uk
正體中文 (Traditional Chinese) Chinese Traditional Team (zh_TW) -- -- --
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) Chinese Simplified Team (zh_CN) Simplified Chinese (zh-cn) -- kde-china

Other

Localization/Translation
Team (language code) Wiki Chat Mailing Lists
Afrikaans Afrikaans Team (af) -- -- --
Assamese Assamese Team (as) -- -- --
Asturian Asturian Team (ast) -- -- --
Azerbaijani Azerbaijani Team (az) -- -- --
Belarusian Belarusian Team (be) -- -- --
Belarusian Latin Belarusian Latin Team (be@latin) -- -- --
Bulgarian Bulgarian Team (bg) -- -- --
Bengali Bengali Team (bn) -- -- --
Bengali (India) Bengali (India) Team (bn_IN) See Indian languages
Tibetan Tibetan Team (bo) -- -- --
Breton Breton Team (br) -- -- --
Chhattisgarhi Chhattisgarhi Team (hne) -- -- --
Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) Crimean Tatar (Crimean Turkish) Team (crh) -- -- --
Kashubian Kashubian Team (csb)
Welsh Welsh Team (cy)
Danish Danish Team (da) -- -- --
Dzongkha Dzongkha Team (dz)
Faroese Faroese Team (fo)
Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic Team (gd)
Frisian Frisian Team (fy) kde-i18n-fry
Irish Irish Team (ga) (see KDE Localization link)
Gujarati Gujarati Team (gu) See Indian languages
Hausa Hausa Team (ha) -- -- --
Hebrew Hebrew Team (he) -- -- kde-l10n-he
Hindi (हिन्दी) Hindi (हिन्दी) Team (hi) [1] (at IndLinuX) -- kde-l10n-hi
Croatian (Hrvatski) Croatian (Hrvatski) Team (hr) wiki.open.hr/index.php/KDE_lokalizacija (last updated 2010) -- kde-croatia-list (at SourceForge)
Upper Sorbian Upper Sorbian Team (hsb)
Armenian Armenian Team (hy)
Interlingue Interlingue Team (ie) -- -- --
Igbo Igbo Team (ig) -- -- --
Icelandic Icelandic Team (is) -- -- --
Indian languages -- KDE India Matrix: #kde-indic:kde.org kde-l10n-in
Georgian Georgian Team (ka)
Kabyle Kabyle Team (kab)
Kikongo Kikongo Team (kg)
Kazakh Kazakh Team (kk)
Khmer Khmer Team (km) (see KDE Localization link)
Kannada Kannada Team (kn), Info kde-l10n-kn
Kurdish Kurdish Team (ku)
Kirghiz Kirghiz Team (ky)
Latin Latin Team (la)
Luxembourgish Luxembourgish Team (lb)
Lao Lao Team (lo)
Latvian Latvian Team (lv) (see KDE Localization link)
Maithili Maithili Team (mai) (see KDE Localization link)
Maori Maori Team (mi)
Malagasy Malagasy Team (mg)
Macedonian Macedonian Team (mk) (see KDE Localization link)
Malayalam Malayalam മലയാളം Team (ml) [http://wiki.smc.org.in/ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing സ്വതന്ത്ര മലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങ്

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(see KDE Localization link)
Mongolian Mongolian Team (mn)
Marathi Marathi Team (mr)
Maltese Maltese Team (mt)
Malay Malay Team (ms)
Nepali Nepali Team (ne)
Norwegian Bokmål Norwegian Bokmål Team (nb), Info (see KDE Localization link)
Northern Sotho Northern Sotho Team (nso)
Occitan Occitan Team (oc)
Oriya Oriya Team (or)
Punjabi Punjabi Team (pa), Info Matrix: #punlinux:matrix.org
Pashto Pashto Team (ps)
Romanian Romanian Team (ro) kde-i18n-ro
Sanskrit Sanskrit Team (sa)
Northern Sami Northern Sami Team (se), Info (at skolelinux.no) [email protected]
Kinyarwanda Kinyarwanda Team (rw)
Sinhala Sinhala Team (si) -- -- kde-l10n-si
Albanian Albanian Team (sq) -- -- kde-i18n-sq
Serbian Serbian Team (sr), Info kde-i18n-sr
Swati Swati Team (ss)
Swahili Swahili Team (sw) kde-l10n-sw
Tamil Tamil Team (ta) kde-l10n-ta
Telugu Telugu Team (te)
Thai Thai Team (th) (see KDE Localization link)
Tigrinya Tigrinya Team (ti)
Tajik Tajik Team (tg)
Tamashek Tamashek Team (tmh)
Toki Pona Toki Pona Team (tok)
Tatar Tatar Team (tt)
Tagalog Tagalog Team (tl)
Urdu Urdu Team (ur)
Uzbek Uzbek Team (uz)
Uzbek (Cyrillic) Uzbek (Cyrillic) Team (uz@cyrillic)
Venda Venda Team (ven)
Vietnamese Vietnamese Team (vi) Vietnamese (vi) kde-l10n-vi
Walloon Walloon Team (wa) write [email protected] (see KDE Localization link)
Xhosa Xhosa Team (xh)
Yoruba Yoruba Team (yo)
Chinese (Hong Kong) Chinese Hong Kong Team (zh_HK)
Zulu Zulu Team (zu)

See also

Local Communities

Translation

The KDE Network

External links

Localization (GitLab)

International Sites

ISO 639-1 Language Code (Wikipedia)