Languages and Translations

Question

In the folder \Wireshark\translations\ there are 16 different language files. The language settings of the program only seven. Why? Where is the translator into Russian, he may need some help?

Answer 1

The only actual translated-UI files in the Wireshark source are:

ui/qt/wireshark_de.ts           ui/qt/wireshark_ja_JP.ts
ui/qt/wireshark_en.ts           ui/qt/wireshark_pl.ts
ui/qt/wireshark_fr.ts           ui/qt/wireshark_zh_CN.ts
ui/qt/wireshark_it.ts

so that's German, English, French, Italian, Japanese in Japan (as opposed to Japanese somewhere else? Why not just ui/qt/wireshark_ja.ts?), Polish, and Chinese in the People's Republic of China (would zh_TW use Traditional Chinese rather than Simplified Chinese?). There's no ui/qt/wireshark_ru.ts, so there's no Russian translation; I don't think anybody's worked on a translation, so it appears there is no Russian translator. (The Russian I learned in school has been unused for более сорока лет, so I'm not going to volunteer. :-))