Translations

linscp is available in 53 languages. Its texts come from two places: WinSCP’s translations, for the messages and most captions, and linscp’s own translation files, for what linscp adds or words differently.

Choose a language

linscp starts in your system’s language when it has a translation for it. On Linux it reads LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES or LANG; on Windows it uses the display language.

To pick another one:

1. Open Options › Preferences.
2. Go to Environment › Languages and select the language.
3. Click OK and restart linscp.

To try a language once, without saving the choice, start linscp with --lang:

linscp --lang=de
linscp --lang=pt_BR

On Windows, the translations are part of the Full setup type. A Compact install contains English only.

How complete each language is

Part	Source	Coverage
Error messages, prompts, progress	WinSCP’s translators	As complete as WinSCP’s translation
Menus, dialogs, captions	WinSCP’s translations where the text matches, the rest written for linscp	Every language fully translated

About 270 of linscp’s own texts were translated using WinSCP’s terms for each language, but no native speaker has reviewed them yet. Expect some awkward wording.

Some languages have little or no WinSCP translation behind them: Hindi, Albanian and Armenian have none, and Afrikaans, Galician, Bengali and Latvian have little. In those, linscp’s menus are translated but most messages stay in English.

Known limits

• Two menu items sometimes share the same underlined access key. Press the key again to move to the next item.
• Serbian cannot be chosen yet: selecting it gives Croatian.
• Esperanto and Kabyle, which WinSCP has, are not offered yet.
• On a GTK desktop such as GNOME, standard buttons like OK and Cancel use the desktop’s language, even if you choose another one in linscp.

Help improve a translation

Corrections are welcome, and you do not need to be a programmer.

1. Find your language’s file in the source repository: port/qt/translations/linscp_<language>.ts, for example linscp_de.ts or linscp_pt_BR.ts.
2. Open it in Qt Linguist, or edit the <translation> elements in any text editor.
3. Keep placeholders such as %1 and %n, and use at most one & in each text: it marks the access key.
4. Send the change as a pull request, or attach the file to an issue.

The Get more… button on the Languages page opens the project’s translation notes.

Errors in messages that come from WinSCP’s core belong to WinSCP’s translation. Fix those through WinSCP’s translation project; linscp picks them up when it moves to a newer WinSCP version.

For adding a new language and the scripts that fill in WinSCP’s texts, see contributing.