Writing translation » History » Version 2
Jörg Kiekebusch, 05/18/2011 11:44 AM
updated information for translators
| 1 | 1 | Max Milbers | h1. Writing translation |
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| 3 | 2 | Jörg Kiekebusch | The translation is quite simple. We now use the normal language file system of joomla (http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_language_definition_file). |
| 4 | 1 | Max Milbers | |
| 5 | 2 | Jörg Kiekebusch | 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. |
| 6 | 1 | Max Milbers | |
| 7 | 2 | Jörg Kiekebusch | Rename the file(s) to the shortcut of your language, like de-DE or nl-NL and so on. |
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| 9 | Helpful tools for translating language files are: |
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| 11 | com_missingt_0.4-2-ByMaxMilbersValerieIsaksenForj16-5.zip, which can be downloaded frome here: |
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| 12 | (http://dev.virtuemart.net/issues/294) |
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| 13 | (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) |
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| 15 | With this one you can translate directly from the frontend: |
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| 16 | (http://www.allforjoomla.com/xplugins/plg-translatehelper) |
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| 17 | 1 | Max Milbers | |
| 18 | When you have questions, write to Shukla (http://dev.virtuemart.net/redmine/users/9). |