Replacing/Translating multi string values to other international language

Faseeh Shah

Hi guys, a newbie here

I have a strings.xml file.

Is there a way to replace or translate multi string values to other international language

<string name=“jewellery”>Jewellery</string>

<string name=“photo_editor”>Photo Editor</string>

<string name=“gallery”>Gallery</string>

so basicaly I want to translate Jewellery, Photo Editor and Gallery from english to any other language of choice.

Thanks in advance

Alan Kilborn

@Faseeh-Shah

Do you have a list of the words/phrases to translate, and then the various translations, a possible short example might be:

Jewellery,Joyas,Bijoux
Gallery,Galería,Galerie

Faseeh Shah

@Alan-Kilborn

Yes I have or I can mark copy the string values and use google translate.

Alan Kilborn

@Faseeh-Shah

It’s hard to anticipate the larger framework of what you’re doing, in order to know what advice to provide, but with what you’ve given, if I were doing it, I’d think in terms of a “mail merge” (also a shameless plug for my recent script for such a thing).

Let’s consider the technique shown in THIS THREAD for your situation.

I’d prepare a “template” file/tab:

----<LANG>----
Hi guys, a newbie here
I have a strings.xml file.
Is there a way to replace or translate multi string values to other international language
<string name="jewellery"><JEWELLERY></string>
<string name="photo_editor"><PHOTO EDITOR></string>
<string name="gallery"><GALLERY></string>
so basicaly I want to translate <JEWELLERY>, <PHOTO EDITOR> and <GALLERY> from english to any other language of choice.
Thanks in advance

and a “data table” file/tab:

<LANG>|<JEWELLERY>|<PHOTO EDITOR>|<GALLERY>
English|Jewellery|Photo Editor|Gallery
Spanish|Joyas|Editora de fotos|Galería
French|Bijoux|éditeur de photos|Galerie

Then I’d run the “mail merge” to obtain:

----English----
Hi guys, a newbie here
I have a strings.xml file.
Is there a way to replace or translate multi string values to other international language
<string name="jewellery">Jewellery</string>
<string name="photo_editor">Photo Editor</string>
<string name="gallery">Gallery</string>
so basicaly I want to translate Jewellery, Photo Editor and Gallery from english to any other language of choice.
Thanks in advance
----Spanish----
Hi guys, a newbie here
I have a strings.xml file.
Is there a way to replace or translate multi string values to other international language
<string name="jewellery">Joyas</string>
<string name="photo_editor">Editora de fotos</string>
<string name="gallery">Galería</string>
so basicaly I want to translate Joyas, Editora de fotos and Galería from english to any other language of choice.
Thanks in advance
----French----
Hi guys, a newbie here
I have a strings.xml file.
Is there a way to replace or translate multi string values to other international language
<string name="jewellery">Bijoux</string>
<string name="photo_editor">éditeur de photos</string>
<string name="gallery">Galerie</string>
so basicaly I want to translate Bijoux, éditeur de photos and Galerie from english to any other language of choice.
Thanks in advance

Then, if I were interested in the representation of the original data in Spanish, for example, I’d find that section in the output, and copy it to a new file/tab or wherever I needed it to be.

If you wanted a semi-automated way of copying the data from the results, you could make a macro of a Mark All operation for regex ^----Spanish----\R\K(?s).*?(?=^----|\z), adding a Copy Marked Text to the macro after the mark. Then copying the data becomes as simple as running a macro (well, one macro per language).

Faseeh Shah

@Alan-Kilborn
Thank you, will check the plug for merging and let you know how it went. Yes, theoretically what you advised should solve my prob.

Faseeh Shah

@Alan-Kilborn

Luckily I found solution, a script.

Script could be found here in action:
https://asrt.gluege.boerde.de/

Source:
https://github.com/Ra-Na/GTranslate-strings-xml

Thanks for helping tho.

Alan Kilborn

@Faseeh-Shah said in Replacing/Translating multi string values to other international language:

Luckily I found solution, a script.

If that’s what you were looking for, you shouldn’t have asked your original question in a Notepad++ forum, as it is OFF-TOPIC.

Here we only deal with what Notepad++ can do for you, and what you can do with it.

In other words, your question must be related to Notepad++ in some way. Your question was NOT.