All language files that are supported by a skin are linked in the stringtable.xml file. The text for each language is referred to in another xml file. You can customize this text for any reason, not just for creating your own skins.

• Path to the standard version of stringtable.xml: SK-Installaltion folder/Language/Browserskins/stringtable.xml

The structure of stringtable.xml is self-explanatory, editing the xml file of a particular language is explained below.

In addition to the indivdual browser skins, there are stand-alone skins for start pages. These may or may not have any independent stringtable.xml file. If no independent stringtable.xml is used, the texts are found in the browser skins.

1.1 General Procedure
Find the language file that you want to edit:

• Standard path for browser skins: SK-Installation folder/Language/Browserskins/Default-Ieskin
• Standard path for start pages: SK-Installation folder/Language/Startpages

Make a backup copy of the file so that you can restore to in case of problems. Now open the file in Windows Notepad text editor. Be sure to use Notepad and not Winword or similar software. This is so special and non-Latin characters in the the stringtable.xml file which contains UTF-8 encoded characters is stored in the proper format.

If you edit this file, make sure beforehand that your text editor includes UTF-8 support.

It is important that the string table IDs remain correct.

<string id="1">Forward</string>

Can be changed as follows:

<string id="1">New Text</string>

It is also important that you keep the length of each string about its original size. Shorter texts are ok but longer texts should be avoided as this can lead to display problems in the skin.

If you do not want to edit the existing text, but rather want to create a translation for a language that is not included, you should refer to the English xml file as a template for the translation.
After you have completed the translation of a new language, please email the file to us. We will integrate the new language into the SiteKiosk skins and the changes will be incorporated into the next version of the SiteKiosk installer. 

1.2 Special Characters

Special characters that are used in HTML must be stored as a decimal to avoid display problems.
For example, a < must be stored as &#60; and a > like this &#62;.

You can find an overview of special characters and the corresponding decimal values at:

 http://www.html-world.de/program/html_sz.php.

1.3 Language IDs

Each language begins with a definition of the language ID and ends with </ language>. Within the language definition are the single string IDs.

<language id="9">

<string id="1">Vorwärts</string>

</language>

The Language IDs are below:

LANG_AFRIKAANS	54
LANG_ALBANIAN	28
LANG_ARABIC	1
LANG_ARMENIAN	43
LANG_ASSAMESE	77
LANG_BULGARIAN	2
LANG_CATALAN	3
LANG_CHINESE	4
LANG_CROATIAN	26
LANG_CZECH	5
LANG_DANISH	6
LANG_DUTCH	19
LANG_ENGLISH	9
LANG_ESTONIAN	37
LANG_FINNISH	11
LANG_FRENCH	12
LANG_FRENCH-BELGIUM	2060
LANG_GERMAN	7
LANG_GREEK	8
LANG_HEBREW	13
LANG_HINDI	57
LANG_HUNGARIAN	14
LANG_ICELANDIC	15
LANG_INDONESIAN	33
LANG_ITALIAN	16
LANG_JAPANESE	17
LANG_KANNADA	75
LANG_KOREAN	18
LANG_LATVIAN	38
LANG_LITHUANIAN	39
LANG_MACEDONIAN	47
LANG_MALAY	62
LANG_MALAYALAM	76
LANG_MARATHI	78
LANG_NORWEGIAN	20
LANG_POLISH	21
LANG_PORTUGUESE	22
LANG_ROMANIAN	24
LANG_RUSSIAN	25
LANG_SERBIAN	26
LANG_SLOVAK	27
LANG_SLOVENIAN	36
LANG_SPANISH	10
LANG_SWEDISH	29
LANG_THAI	30
LANG_TURKISH	31