What about a french release ?

[Bartsimpson69]

Hi, and first of all, as I said in a previous thread, thanks for this marvelous release ! :)

I'm french and if I can work in english, it is more comfortable for me to use a frech interface ;) So, does someone want to work on a french release ? My contribution can be the translation for all texts you would submit.

Anyone interested ?

[zEar]

Hi,

I agree, I love WM6, english doesn't bother me nevertheless a french version would be cool.
I use lvsw's and it works great with SFR in France (radio 1.35.00.11 catches UMTS nicely, the voicemail icon works etc...)

Can someone estimate the time it would take to cover all files to translate ?

:cool:

[Kael]

Would be quite interested too. Having to wait for the official release of WM5 (to have a security backup) or even the WM6 French edition (apparently Q2 2007 as for HTC France) is too bothersome ;)

But I think translating everything would be also a pain in the a..please wait 2 seconds for an uncompressed image

[Atmis]

I made a small cab which at least change the input settings and spell check into french. The ROM stays in English of course.
More info here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297222

[Bartsimpson69]

I've seen that virtual keyboard layout is based on two dlls... Does someone have those ?:)

[zEar]

Hi all,

Cool that this thread leveraged some interest ;)

Based on everyday use of both french and english layout, I think it could be smart to create an hybrid layout, mix of azerty and qwerty, ie :
- Use azerty 1st row accents but invert shift behavior to have digits without shift
- same thing for commonly used characters like @ ' to also get them without shifting (1 click instead of 2)

What do you think ?