VI conversion from japanese to English

[Ajeet_Kumar]

Hi,

I have some VI developed in Japanesee. I want to convert the VI in english. Please suggest.

[Blokk]

There is no language difference between VIs. It depends on, which language of your installed LabVIEW version has.

If you mean you have a GUI (and BD) with Japanese "text", you can translate it to English and change the elements accordingly on the Front Panel. Ask a translator for example, or use some translator software...

[Ajeet_Kumar]

Do we need to do the translation manually? Is there any way to convert Japanses VI to English programmatically ?

[GerdW]

Hi Ajeet,

you can create your own translator that gets all strings from your VI to be translated. Then your translator looks up suitable English words and replaces the strings in your VI. It's a lot work and often automatic translators fail with one word or the other…

[Blokk]

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@Ajeet_Kumar wrote:

Do we need to do the translation manually? Is there any way to convert Japanses VI to English programmatically ?

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There are no Japanese VIs, neither English VIs. What you see on the Front Panel, are just strings. If I used Klingon words on the Front Panel, it will not make the VI Klingon 🙂

You can write any language characters on the Front Panel, with some special exceptions. You can see some related info about it here:

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000x3QKCAY&l=en-US

As GerdW mentioned, you could create some automatized technique to auto-translate the strings and replace them, this may speed up the translation procedure, but for sure you will need lots of manual work too to fix errors...For example if you check google translate, it works quite well between German-English, but a Japanese-English translation for sure not that efficient/good...