Internationalization
Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, under the leadership of Christian Rose and Danilo Šegan, GNOME 2.16 offers support for 54 languages (at least 80 percent of strings translated).
Supported languages:
- Albanian
- Basque
- Bengali
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Hong Kong)
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- Chinese Simplified
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Dzongkha
- English
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indian Bengali
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malayalam
- Nepali
- Norwegian Bookmal
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Oriya
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Welsh
Note that Dzongka, Hebrew Indian Bengali, Latvian, Malayalam, Norwegian Nynorsk, Oriya, Slovenian and Tamil are new supported languages in GNOME 2.16, thanks to the hard work of their translators. Also noteworthy are that British and Canadian English are supported.
Many other languages are partially supported, with more than half of their strings translated.