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v11 v12 3 3 This document describes how users without a strong technical background in software engineering can contribute translations to other languages. The process is very straightforward and based on the easy to use [http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/linguist-manual-3.html Qt Linguist] tool which is a part of the Qt Toolkit version 3. 4 4 5 Translation is possible for all language , including languages with non-latin alphabets. The process requires you to perform an initial translation which you then have to keep up to date as !VirtualBox evolves. The original language is English which -- together with German -- is handled by !InnoTek. The Qt Linguist tool will also assist you in finding where your translation has to be updated for a new release of !VirtualBox.5 Translation is possible for all languages, including languages with non-latin alphabets. The process requires you to perform an initial translation which you then have to keep up to date as !VirtualBox evolves. The original language is English which -- together with German -- is handled by !InnoTek. The Qt Linguist tool will also assist you in finding where your translation has to be updated for a new release of !VirtualBox. 6 6 7 7 == Language file naming and location == … … 11 11 <component>_<lang> 12 12 }}} 13 where {{{<component>}}} is the name of the component (currently, {{{VirtualBox}}} is the only possible value which stands for the the''!VirtualBox GUI'' front-end) and {{{<lang>}}} is the language identifier.13 where {{{<component>}}} is the name of the component (currently, {{{VirtualBox}}} is the only possible value which stands for the ''!VirtualBox GUI'' front-end) and {{{<lang>}}} is the language identifier. 14 14 15 15 The language identifier has the form of {{{<language>[_<TERRITORY>]}}}, where {{{<language>}}} is a two-letter language code as defined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes ISO 639], and optional {{{<TERRITORY>}}} is a two-letter territory (country) code as defined by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 ISO 3166]. See the examples of language file names at the end of this section.