Translations

JOSM translation is a whole divided into three parts, one of which is seen on every startup, another by the Software, and a third by Wiki or online help users. All these use different methods for translation.

StartupPage

The translation of JOSM start messages can be changed at StartupPageSource.

This page has a special format:

• Each line "en:" starts a new translatable line.
• Each line with another language abbreviation translates the previous English line.
• Each line without specifics is taken as is.
• Lines starting with "#" are ignored.

NOTE: There aren't always empty lines between the different sets. Be careful not to mix translations or forget some! Please sort the entries in each set by the lowercase language abbreviation, but keep "en:" first.

When changing English text please keep in mind that translations also need to be adapted. If you are not able to do so, then add an "x" in front of the language abbreviation, so the translation is still available as a draft, but disabled.

The previewed or saved page shows multiple sections sorted by language. Lines marked with EN show untranslated lines. Lines marked with X have been marked as draft line. Lines marked with BASE are missing in a nationalized translation and have been overridden with the language based translation (i.e. "ca" used instead of missing "ca@valencia").

The table below shows translation status of the Startup Page:

• Background: Yellow = Translations need update and Green = Everything up-to-date
• Numbers: First = untranslated lines, '+' separator and Second = draft lines.

ar	ast	be	bg	ca	ca@valencia	cs	cy	da	de	el	en	en_AU	en_GB	eo	es	et	eu	fa	fi	fo	fr	hr	hu	id	is	it	ja	ko	la	lt	lv	ms	nb	nl	nn	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	sv	uk	vi	zh_CN	zh_TW
5	6	2	6	0	21	0	4	2	0	2	0	21	21	2	0	6	12 + 1	15	1	2	0	11 + 2	0	3	2	2	3	2	3 + 19	7	2	6 + 2	2	0	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	20	0	0

Version history

The translation of older JOSM start messages can be changed at VersionHistorySource for the current year. For each former year a separate page exists (e.g. VersionHistorySource/2016) back to 2008.

The line format is the same as above.

The translation status of the VersionHistory is at the bottom of the English version of this page.

Software

Translation of the program texts including plugins is done at ​Launchpad. A few plugins are translated at ​transifex instead (as of January 2018 Mapillary, geojson and scripting).

The templates at Launchpad are updated each night together with the new latest build. Translations are imported before each new release (or more often when needed).

The Java translation has some specialities which must be remembered when translating:

• The ' sign is a special character. It must be escaped by another ', so '' means a single quote in resulting display.
• For languages with heavy usage of this character the typographic ’ may be used instead of the escaping (looks better when translating, in the final software a user will hardly see the difference).
  • This character is U+2019 named RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
  • Under Linux this character is available with <ALT-GR>+<SHIFT>+<N>
  • Under Windows the character is available by pressing <ALT> and typing 0146 on keypad
• Don't use the message formating brackets {}, or when, then escape each with single quotes like '{' or '}'.

All strings have a reference to the place in source code where they appear. That can help to find proper translation. You find the sources here:

• main JOSM source or complete JOSM source
• [osm:source:applications/editors/josm/plugins JOSM plugins]
• sources starting with trans_ are converted from data files
  • trans_maps.java: our list of background imagery
  • trans_plugins.java: description texts of plugins
  • trans_presets.java: internal preset
  • trans_surveyor.java: [osm:source:applications/editors/josm/plugins/surveyor/resources/surveyor.xml surveyor plugin setup file]

Changes made in Launchpad will be imported into JOSM for all languages which are already in JOSM. Usually the JOSM team updates the text data once or twice just before the release of a new tested version (which is usually at the end of every month, see roadmap).

New languages will be added to JOSM when there are at least 2000 translated strings. Please start with main user interface to reach best results.

A short description how to add new language support for test purposes, when 2000 strings limit is not yet reached:

• Create the language files and store them in the plugin file (or JOSM core):
  • Language files are stored in directory "data" of JOSM and named with the lowercase language code with extension .lang.
  • These files are always a set. The English base file and the translation files must be created together or they will not work correctly.
  • The Perl script [osm:source:applications/editors/josm/i18n/i18n.pl i18n.pl] must be called with a destination directory and the .po files to create translation data.
• Add the new language in init() function of I18n.java​:
  • A proper code for the plural mode of the language needs to specified.
  • A description of the plural calculations can be found in the .po file downloaded from Launchpad.
  • If none of the existing modes matches the language, add new one needs to be added in the PluralMode enumeration and in pluralEval() function.
  • For some special languages it is necessary to add workaround code in LanguageInfo.java​ to translate between Java language code and the newer codes used on Launchpad

Current JOSM translation status active in the software (only JOSM core and server, no plugins) is shown in following table.

JOSM core		JOSM server data
language normal strings plural number plural strings complete plural sets total en English 11229 2 344 (344) 172 100.0 de Deutsch 11229 2 344 (344) 172 100.0 en_GB British 11229 2 344 (344) 172 100.0 es español 11229 2 344 (344) 172 100.0 nl Nederlands 11229 2 344 (344) 172 100.0 uk українська 11195 3 516 (516) 172 99.7 ru русский 11188 3 516 (516) 172 99.7 en_AU Australian 11182 2 344 (344) 172 99.6 it italiano 11108 2 344 (344) 172 99.0 en_CA Canadian 11099 2 344 (344) 172 98.9 el Ελληνικά 11056 2 344 (344) 172 98.5 pt português 11035 2 344 (344) 172 98.3 zh_CN 简体中文 11036 1 172 (172) 172 98.3 be беларуская 10989 3 516 (516) 172 98.0 sv svenska 10992 2 344 (344) 172 98.0 da dansk 10987 2 344 (344) 172 97.9 eo Esperanto 10987 2 344 (344) 172 97.9 fo føroyskt 10987 2 344 (344) 172 97.9 nb norsk bokmål 10987 2 344 (344) 172 97.9 nn norsk nynorsk 10987 2 344 (344) 172 97.9 lo ພາສາລາວ 10987 1 172 (172) 172 97.9 ar العربية 10949 6 1032 (1032) 172 97.7 fr français 10944 2 344 (344) 172 97.5 id Bahasa Indonesia 10902 1 172 (172) 172 97.1 pt_BR português brasileiro 10857 2 344 (344) 172 96.8 lv latviešu 11041 3 160 (516) 53 95.4 ja 日本語 10427 1 172 (172) 172 93.0 cs čeština 9984 3 516 (516) 172 89.4 hu magyar 9766 2 344 (344) 172 87.4 sk slovenčina 9711 3 516 (516) 172 87.1 pl polski 9710 3 516 (516) 172 87.1 zh_TW 正體中文 9205 1 165 (172) 165 82.2 bg български 9149 2 339 (344) 169 82.0 ko 한국어 7382 1 156 (172) 156 66.1 fi suomi 7164 2 318 (344) 159 64.7 ca català 6285 2 300 (344) 150 56.9 gl galego 6324 2 258 (344) 129 56.9 tr Türkçe 6199 2 311 (344) 154 56.3 is Íslenska 6016 2 328 (344) 164 54.8 lt lietuvių 5707 3 450 (516) 150 52.4 ast asturianu 5462 2 278 (344) 139 49.6 ca@valencia valencià 4775 2 280 (344) 140 43.7 fa فارسی 4310 2 140 (344) 60 38.5 sr@latin srpski 3969 3 363 (516) 121 36.9 cy Cymraeg 3645 4 104 (688) 26 31.5 km ភាសាខ្មែរ 3450 1 132 (172) 132 31.4 mr मराठी 3258 2 144 (344) 72 29.4 et eesti 2647 2 140 (344) 70 24.1		language normal strings plural number plural strings complete plural sets total en English 126 2 0 (0) 0 100.0 de Deutsch 126 0 0 (0) 0 100.0 en_GB British 126 0 0 (0) 0 100.0 es español 126 0 0 (0) 0 100.0 nl Nederlands 126 0 0 (0) 0 100.0 uk українська 126 0 0 (0) 0 100.0 ar العربية 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 be беларуская 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 da dansk 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 el Ελληνικά 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 en_AU Australian 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 en_CA Canadian 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 eo Esperanto 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 fo føroyskt 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 fr français 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 id Bahasa Indonesia 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 it italiano 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 lo ພາສາລາວ 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 lv latviešu 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 nb norsk bokmål 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 nn norsk nynorsk 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 pt português 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 pt_BR português brasileiro 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 ru русский 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 sv svenska 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 zh_CN 简体中文 125 0 0 (0) 0 99.2 sk slovenčina 112 0 0 (0) 0 88.9 pl polski 109 0 0 (0) 0 86.5 bg български 104 0 0 (0) 0 82.5 cs čeština 104 0 0 (0) 0 82.5 hu magyar 100 0 0 (0) 0 79.4 ja 日本語 81 0 0 (0) 0 64.3 ca català 77 0 0 (0) 0 61.1 zh_TW 正體中文 70 0 0 (0) 0 55.6 ast asturianu 66 0 0 (0) 0 52.4 ca@valencia valencià 64 0 0 (0) 0 50.8 km ភាសាខ្មែរ 51 0 0 (0) 0 40.5 sr@latin srpski 41 0 0 (0) 0 32.5 gl galego 35 0 0 (0) 0 27.8 ko 한국어 33 0 0 (0) 0 26.2 fi suomi 31 0 0 (0) 0 24.6 lt lietuvių 23 0 0 (0) 0 18.3 tr Türkçe 17 0 0 (0) 0 13.5 cy Cymraeg 16 0 0 (0) 0 12.7 et eesti 15 0 0 (0) 0 11.9 fa فارسی 8 0 0 (0) 0 6.3 is Íslenska 2 0 0 (0) 0 1.6 mr मराठी 1 0 0 (0) 0 0.8

Online help and Wiki pages

The JOSM online help is based on this websites Wiki. See Translations/Wiki for detailed information.

A list of all currently known online help pages can be found at Help Topics List. This list is automatically created, but may be incomplete nevertheless.

Language specific notes

Here is a list of the rules and recommendations how the terms and texts of JOSM and OpenStreetMap should be translated.

Version history translation status

The translation status of the Version history is shown in the following tables. Please see Version history for details.

VersionHistorySource

ar	ast	be	bg	ca	cs	cy	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fo	fr	hu	id	is	it	ja	ko	la	lt	lv	ms	nb	nl	nn	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	sv	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
8	8	1	15	0	1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	2	1 + 15	8	1	8 + 8	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1

VersionHistorySource/2024

ar	ast	be	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	ms	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	sv	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
1	6	5	4	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	6 + 12	0	0	5	0	0	1	0	6	11	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2023

ar	ast	be	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	ms	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
5	8	8	6	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	8	8	0	3	0	4	0	6	8 + 10	0	0	8	0	0	4	0	8	2	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2022

ar	ast	be	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	ms	nb	nl	pl	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
2	2	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 + 9	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2021

ar	ast	be	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	ms	nb	nl	pl	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
22	16	16	13	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	10	16	0	2	0	14	0	0	16 + 8	0	0	0	16	0	0	3	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2020

ast	be	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	ms	nb	nl	pl	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
17	26	26	15	26	0	0	0	0	0	26	26	0	0	5	3	0	0	24 + 7	0	0	2	26	0	0	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2019

ast	be	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sr@latin	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
4	13	15	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	13	13	0	0	10	10	0	0	0	0	12	22	11	0	0	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2018

ast	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	nb	nl	pl	pt_BR	ru	sk	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
13	0	23	0	0	0	0	0	23	16	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	6	23	0	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2017

ast	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fr	hu	it	ja	ko	lt	nb	nl	pl	pt_BR	ru	sk	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
2	0	24	0	0	0	0	0	29	0	0	7	27	38	0	0	0	0	29	0	0	2	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2016

ast	cs	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fr	hu	it	ja	lt	nb	nl	pl	pt_BR	ru	sk	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	3	19	0	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2015

ast	be	bg	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fr	hu	it	ja	lt	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
0	14	16	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	16	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	16	12	0	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2014

ast	be	bg	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fr	hu	it	ja	lt	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
19	26	19	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	22	0	0	0	22	0	7	0	0	0	0

VersionHistorySource/2013

bg	ca	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fr	hu	it	ja	nb	nl	pl	ru	sk	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
37	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	16 + 3	0 + 1	22	0	37	36

VersionHistorySource/2012

bg	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hu	it	ja	nb	nl	pl	pt	pt_BR	ru	sk	sv	uk	zh_TW
35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	27	0	1	0	0	0	0	10	8	37	0	15	32	0	10

VersionHistorySource/2011

ar	bg	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	it	ja	nb	nl	pl	pt	ru	sk	sv	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
38	30 + 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	25 + 1	32	0	11	0	0	0	18	38	0	30	38	0	14	27

VersionHistorySource/2010

bg	cs	da	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	it	ja	nb	nl	pl	pt	ru	sv	uk	zh_CN	zh_TW
13	0	18	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	15	0	0	11	1	0	19	0	7	10

VersionHistorySource/2009

bg	cs	de	el	en	eo	es	et	fi	fr	hr	is	it	ja	nb	nl	pl	pt	ru	sv
25	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	1	0	24	24	3	18	0	0	24	24	0	9

VersionHistorySource/2008

cs	de	el	en	eo	es	fr	it	ja	nb	nl	pl	ru	sv
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	9	0	0	11	0	10