Writing translation¶

The translation is quite simple. We now use the normal language file system of joomla (http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_language_definition_file).

Just look in the backend and frontend language folders of joomla. The main backend VirtueMart language file "en-GB.com_virtuemart.ini" is located in ...administrator/language/en-GB. Open and translate this file with an Editor (i.e. Notepad++) configured to store the file encoded as UTF-8 without BOM! The VirtueMart frontend language files are located in .../language/en-GB.

Rename the file(s) to the shortcut of your language, like de-DE or nl-NL and so on.

Helpful tools for translating language files are:

com_missingt_0.4-2-ByMaxMilbersValerieIsaksenForj16-5.zip, which can be downloaded frome here:
(http://dev.virtuemart.net/issues/294)
(Currently the installer doesn't copy it's own language file. After installing it, you have to unzip this extension and copy its' language file en_GB_com_missingt.ini manually into ...\administrator\language\en-GB in order to make it look nice)

With this one you can translate directly from the frontend:
(http://www.allforjoomla.com/xplugins/plg-translatehelper)

When you have questions, write to Shukla (http://dev.virtuemart.net/redmine/users/9).