Question about starting a Japanese translation project / Guidance for a japanese student beginner

[LuisR385]

Hi raylib community,

I’m a game development japanese student
and a big fan of raylib. I really appreciate this amazing library!

I would love to contribute to the community by creating a Japanese translation of the documentation. To be honest, this is my very first time interacting with people on GitHub, so I’m a bit nervous, but I really want to help.

I have a few questions before I begin:

1. Is it okay for me to create and share a Japanese translation?
2. Are there any ongoing Japanese translation projects or specific guidelines I should follow?
   If a project already exists, I would love to join and help out.

Thank you so much for your time and help!

Best regards

LuisR385

[raysan5]

Hi @LuisR385! Thanks for your willing to contribute to raylib project!

There is a lot of documentation for raylib and at this moment there is no mechanism setup to support documnents translations on raylib repo, afaik, neither GitHub has any mechanism for that. What did you thought you could translate? README? Wiki? FAQ?

Otherwise, there are some translations for raylib cheatsheet on raylib webpage, probably that would be a good start as a basic documentation: https://www.raylib.com/cheatsheet/cheatsheet.html

raylib cheatsheet documents can bee found here: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib.com/tree/master/cheatsheet

Is it okay for me to create and share a Japanese translation?

Yes, sure. Feel free.

Are there any ongoing Japanese translation projects or specific guidelines I should follow?
If a project already exists, I would love to join and help out.

I don't think so...

[LuisR385]

I'm thinking of creating a Japanese translation based on raylib.h and the existing PDF cheatsheets available on the official website.
My goal is to provide Japanese game development students with a much better game creation experience.

To be honest, raylib isn't very well-known in Japan yet.
We have a popular library called "DxLib" (a DirectX wrapper) that many people use instead.
However, raylib is incredibly user-friendly, and it truly blew me away when I first used it.
As for how to handle Japanese text rendering within raylib itself, there are already community threads addressing that in Japan,
so I don't think we need to cover that part.

I absolutely love raylib! My ultimate vision is to make it global and create an environment where anyone—including people here in Japan　can easily learn and have a blast making games.

Of course, I will be very mindful of the licensing; I deeply respect raylib and its philosophy.

Since generating the PDF itself likely involves Python or HTML, I'm planning to learn those technologies to get the job done properly. I am a student in Japan currently using C and C++(17), and I am genuinely excited to contribute to the further growth and development of this amazing project!

P.S. To make sure I conveyed my feelings accurately, I used AI and Google Translate for this message. I used to be able to speak English, but my writing skills have gotten a bit rusty lately, so I wanted to make sure everything came across right!

[AlomeProg]

Good luck with this task! And don't worry about using a translator or AI to help express your thoughts more accurately in another language.