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Tiny Turtle · 04-21-2001, 04:09 PM

As this SS has sparked a sudden interest for salt water aquariums IRL for me, I'm reading everything I can lay my hands on about 'em. I'm starting to learn the Swedish names for the fishes. When I recently paid a visit to Stockholm's "Aquaria Water Museum" (Ever been there Ingo?) I heard people around me asking their friends what all sorts of fish were called. I was about to answer when I realized that I only knew the english names for them! The Swedish names aren't direct translations of the English (for instance, the swedish name for regal tang would translate into "palette surgeonfish" and the lionfish is a "dragonfish" around my part of the woods.

Anyway, that's when I got the idea for a localized version of the SS. A pull-down menu in the "Settings" dialog with different languages (including Latin of course!) shouldn't be so hard for someone who can create actual life inside my monitor...

It could still be contained inside the sole .scr-file and wouldn't take too much space either. The actual translation work shouldn't be that big a problem, I'm sure that people in this community would trample each other for the opportunity to contribute in any way to this SS.

/Calle

PS
An aquarium with a dark background and one sole lionfish swimming around slowly, that's my dream setup right now!

04-21-2001, 04:09 PM	#186
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	SS localization As this SS has sparked a sudden interest for salt water aquariums IRL for me, I'm reading everything I can lay my hands on about 'em. I'm starting to learn the Swedish names for the fishes. When I recently paid a visit to Stockholm's "Aquaria Water Museum" (Ever been there Ingo?) I heard people around me asking their friends what all sorts of fish were called. I was about to answer when I realized that I only knew the english names for them! The Swedish names aren't direct translations of the English (for instance, the swedish name for regal tang would translate into "palette surgeonfish" and the lionfish is a "dragonfish" around my part of the woods. Anyway, that's when I got the idea for a localized version of the SS. A pull-down menu in the "Settings" dialog with different languages (including Latin of course!) shouldn't be so hard for someone who can create actual life inside my monitor... It could still be contained inside the sole .scr-file and wouldn't take too much space either. The actual translation work shouldn't be that big a problem, I'm sure that people in this community would trample each other for the opportunity to contribute in any way to this SS. /Calle PS An aquarium with a dark background and one sole lionfish swimming around slowly, that's my dream setup right now! Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.