Greenstone language support

There are several different levels of Greenstone language support.


 * 1) Core languages English, French, Spanish, and Russian are Greenstone core languages. For these there is a full translation, including interface, documentation, sample collections, and installation instructions. They have been produced in conjunction with UNESCO and are distributed with all versions of Greenstone, including the CD-ROM version. They are updated whenever the CD-ROM is re-issued (so far, approximately once a year).
 * 2) Supported languages The Greenstone interface has been translated into many languages. However, the system is growing and language interfaces become out-dated as new features are added to the software. For each language, we are hoping to find a volunteer who undertakes to periodically maintain the interface for that language. Typically only the Greenstone interface is translated, but for some languages the Greenstone Librarian Interface and other documentation is also translated.
 * 3) In progress For some languages, a translator has volunteered, but the translated interface is not yet available.

When you download Greenstone, all the language interfaces come automatically. (For UNESCO CD-ROMS, only English, French, Spanish and Russian are activated. To activate the others, please see the "Enabling other languages" section of the [/gsdoc/tutorial/en/update_greenstone_installation.htm Updating a Greenstone installation] tutorial.)

Multilingual facilities are only maintained for the latest version of Greenstone. Users who have an older version without the desired language should upgrade to the latest version. Note that some language interfaces are incomplete; non-updated text appears in English.

Here is a summary of the languages currently supported:

Here is a summary of the languages in progress:

This page shows the current translation status of the languages.

We also very much appreciate the people who helped us dealing with urgent cases like producing the UNESCO CD-ROMs--Kamal Salih and Usama Salama (Arabic); Andrew Yan Han and Kevin Fong (Chinese Simplified); Georges Braoudakis (French); Sergei Korobitsin, Vyacheslav Bakharev and Sergey Karpov (Russian); and Jesús Tramullas (Spanish).

We gratefully acknowledge the help of the many people who have done translations in the past, including Abiyot Bayou (Amharic), Prasenjit Majumder (Bengali), Shu-Jen Show (Chinese - Traditional), Boris Bosancic (Croatian), Jakub Řehan (Czech), Elke Duncker-Gassen (Dutch), Mohammad Karimi Yazdi (Farsi), Steve Legrand (Finnish), Georges Braoudakis (French), Xaquín Lores (Galician), George Varamishvili (Georgian), Dimitris Gavrilis (Greek), B. S. Shivaram (Hindi and Kannada), Marco Michelino (Italian), Massimo Pesenti (Italian), Maruf Hasan (Japanese and Thai), K. T. Anuradha and Pradeep Kumar.U.M. (Kannada), Bolatbek Amanbekov (Kazakh), Fedor Bakalov (Kirghiz), K.T Anuradha and Sanjo Jose (Malayalam), Anup Poudyal (Nepali), Lech Borkowski (Polish), Eliel Carneiro de Oliveira (Portuguese - Brazil), José Borbinha (Portuguese - Portugal), Galina Bachmanova (Russian), Tamara Butigan (Serbian), V. Chandrakumar and A. Gnanasekar (Tamil), Özcan Kabakçıoğlu (Turkish), Uğur Bulgan (Turkish), Vasyl Tanovsky (Ukrainian).