Can add a Chinese translation?

[chenpaner]

Thank you very much for this handy software!
I really want to add a Chinese translation to this software, but I only know a little Python and don't understand C++ at all. So could you please provide an English dictionary for me? I can translate it into Chinese, and then we can add a Chinese interface.

[HuguesDelorme]

Hello @chenpaner
Providing a chinese translation for Mayo would be great!
The translation files are in Qt format(*.ts) and stored in i18n folder. There are two languages provided so far: english(i18n/mayo_en.ts) and french(i18n/mayo_fr.ts)

I've created an empty translation file for chinese: mayo_zh.zip
You can edit this new mayo_zh.ts file with the Qt linguist tool, easily available here: https://github.com/thurask/Qt-Linguist/releases
Download linguist_5.15.16.zip and execute the linguist.exe file within the ZIP archive.
Then from Qt linguist just open mayo_zh.ts and start translate the messages.
Here is the manual of this tool, but it's rather intuitive to use: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/linguist-ui.html

Feel free to ask your questions here in this thread, if there's any issue!

Once you have translated a few messages into chinese, then contact me and we will then add your mayo_zh.ts file and do the necessary stuff to make Mayo aware of this new language file.
After that you will be able to complete mayo_zh.ts file and check on your side how it looks like in Mayo