Internationalisation
Thanks to members of the worldwide GNOME Translation Project, GNOME 3.0 offers support for more than 50 languages, often including user and administration manuals.
Supported languages include:
- Arabic
- Asturian
- Basque
- Bengali
- Brazilian Portuguese
- British English
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Catalan (Valencian)
- Chinese (China)
- Chinese (Hong Kong)
- Chinese (Taiwan)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Marathi
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Serbian Latin
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Many other languages are partially supported. Detailed information on the extent of GNOME translations is available through the GNOME translation status site.
Translating a software package as large as GNOME into a different language can be a difficult task for even the most dedicated translation team. For this release a stellar effort has been done by the Uighur team, increasing the completeness of their translation by more than 37 points. The Esperanto team also increased its coverage by 21 percent.