Localization for Custom Data in Civicrm 4.2

[Joan Nguyen]

Hi everybody!

I am developing CiviCRM 4.2 with Drupal CMS in default English. But my client wants to localize to German.
I seccessfully localized Drupal and Standard CiviCRM using .po files, which i put in the folder I10n/de_DE in CiviCRM module. i set Germen as default language and most standard expressions get translated.
But now, i dont know how to translate Custom Data (Custom fields) or contact subtypes (Customer -> Kundin). Which steps should i follow?
I deally I want to translate all Custom things in custom.po. Is it possible?

[Kurund Jalmi]

But now, i dont know how to translate Custom Data (Custom fields) or contact subtypes (Customer -> Kundin). Which steps should i follow?

Do you mean names of custom data field? If yes than you will have create / enter the custom data fields in German, you can't translate values that are stored in db

I deally I want to translate all Custom things in custom.po. Is it possible?

Any that which is stored in db, should be entered in localized language.

HTH
Kurund

[Joan Nguyen]

Thanks, Kurund.
I understand.

Then If i want to change the standard translation in .po files, how should i do?

[Kurund Jalmi]

Then If i want to change the standard translation in .po files, how should i do?

Join the translation team at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/civicrm/

Kurund

[Joan Nguyen]

Thank you so much, Kurund.
I joined the translation team.
but i read documentation on http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC42/CiviCRM+Localisation, i see that if i want to use new .po files, i need to compile the PO files into one MO file (civicrm.mo). I used some tools for Windows as Poedit, GetText to compile but wasn't successful.
So do you have any solution to compile .po files into one .mo file for Windows?

[mathieu]

Every week (I think it's on Wednesday), the .mo files are compiled by a CiviCRM server, and published on github. You can find it here for German:
https://github.com/civicrm/l10n/raw/master/po/de/civicrm.mo

You can also see recent changes to the translation files from here:
https://github.com/civicrm/l10n/tree/master/po/de (click on the "latest commit" link in the upper-right side of the file listing)

[Lander]

You can use this localization platform to translate your strings to German https://poeditor.com. It's simple to translate using it and its translation memory. Crowd translations work really effectively also.