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I noticed that those special german characters (äöüÄÖÜß) weren't displayed correctly in the menus and palettes. I'm on Mac, so I don't know if that same problem occurs on PCs.
From experience I suspected it to be a simple ASCII/UTF-8 problem, so I searched in the program package and found the file german.tvpaint.loc in the data folder. Sure enough it had all wrong characters instead of the right ones, like fl for ß and so on. But it also used the ß as a special character: so I put a € instead. I did some search&replace over the whole file until every Umlaut was included correctly. Now comes the trick: I saved the file explicitely as UTF-8 and put it back in its place. (Of course I did a backup before I started!)

TVP now shows the correct Umlaute everywhere. There also seem to be some typos in the menus which I will fix over time.

First of, German isn't yet officially supported... does someone volunters to finish the translation ?
PC people don't even get the german.tvpaint.loc file, so you're lucky

Yes it is a UTF8 problem. The best thing is to convince your editor to load the file as a windows file (don't remember the exact ISO number),
then save it as UTF8.
Well, I've done it on a PC here, see attachment.

The ess-zed (however it is written) should be a "paragraph" sign (it is in the attached UTF8 file).

The funny thing is that I don't know why it used the german version - my Mirage uses english. TVP started in german right from the start - not that I complain about that.

Now that you mention it I found the "open as" option in BBEdit ... would've saved me the search&replace orgy.

I'll see through the whole file and correct translations where necessary, but at first glance it looks pretty well done.

It was done by Volker Hill from MacroSystem, he is a native german speaker.

But there were some addition to TVPAP since he translated it.
These will appear in english in the software until they are translated.

I had to translate the loc.file for our CBPaint version. Unfortunatly CBPaint does not offer all the options that TVPaint Animation Pro does so I had to translate "things" without knowing what they actually meant

I could continue translating the new buttons and stuff but I prefer that Mr. Slowtiger continues now because he already started

I will, once I've got the version 9 which I've just ordered.