<div dir="ltr">Hi Translators,<div><br></div><div>A few days ago, I mentioned I'd write about how to test translations on a phone, even without a device. Yesterday I just finished the first article on the first step of the process: installing and running the emulator:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-emulator-quickstart-guide/">http://davidplanella.org/ubuntu-emulator-quickstart-guide/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'm preparing a separate article for the actual testing, but I thought in the meantime I'd put together a quick set of instructions so that translators can already check what translations look like for their languages on the emulator</div>
<div><br></div><div>The following instructions assume you've installed the emulator and you've got an instance running.</div><div><br></div><div>## Installing new languages</div><div><br></div><div>Right now there is only a subset of languages installed on the phone (English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese -from Portugal and Brazilian-, Simplified Chinese). If your language is on that list, you can skip this and jump to the next section. Otherwise, please read on...<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>1. Log into the adb shell that appears in the terminal next to the emulator. Use 'phablet' (without quotes) both for the user name and password</div><div>2. Run `sudo apt-get update` on that same terminal session</div>
<div>3. Run `sudo apt-get install language-pack-{gnome-,}-$LANG-base` on that same terminal session (replace $LANG with your 2-letter or 3-letter language code, e.g. 'ca', 'it', 'ast', etc)</div><div>
4. You've now installed your language. Press Ctrl+C on that terminal to close the emulator</div><div><br></div><div>## Switching languages</div><div><br></div><div>Once the phone UI is up in the emulator, it's time to chose your language using your mouse:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Slide to the left to go past the welcome screen</div><div>2. Slide once more to the left to show the Applications scope</div><div>3. Click on the System Settings app</div><div>4. Within System Settings, click on Language & Text</div>
<div>5. Scroll up or down the list to select and set your language</div><div>6. Once done, close the emulator for the language settings to have effect on the next boot.</div><div>7. Restart the emulator - e.g. run `ubuntu-emulator run myimage`, where 'myimage' was the chosen name you gave to the instance you want to run<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>And that's it, you should now see the phone in your language!</div><div><br></div><div>## Translating and reporting bugs</div><div><br></div><div>At this point you'll see parts of the UI that need translation, which you can complete from the list highlighted here:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://davidplanella.org/make-ubuntu-speak-your-language/">http://davidplanella.org/make-ubuntu-speak-your-language/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>From there, you can also find out the upstream project, so if you see any internalization issue, you can report it as a bug there.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me know how this works for you!</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>David.</div></div>