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Markus Hapke

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Documentation for Multiple Languages Support functionality (German)
December 09, 2013, 05:43:11 am
How do I know that I need to switch to multi-languages ?

In my case we use civicrm only in German, and localization setting ist like this.

But If I need to edit a workflow message template I see it only in English
(Administr / communication / mess.Templates / Sys Workflow messages   -> for example Contribution Receipt (offline)  )

Funny: if I send any of the messages there I get it in German! Where can I adopt the German Form ? Or do I need to
switch to mulit-language and import additional data?

Best Regards, M.Hapke

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Re: Documentation for Multiple Languages Support functionality (German)
December 09, 2013, 06:23:25 am
Hi,

If you use CiviCRM only in German, you only need to switch the language in the localization settings (no need for multi-lingual).

However, if you initially installed in English, then switched to German, the templates and other configurations may still be in English, and you need to manually update them. If you install directly in German (by having the civicrm-l10n.tar.gz files in place, and selecting the language at installation), then all configurations will be pre-populated in German (well, if the translation exists, but German has a pretty advanced translation).

There was a presentation on this topic at CiviCon London 2013, in which we mentioned when/why/what: http://london2013.civicrm.org/sessions/parlez-vous-civicrm-internationalisation-and-so-many-other-languages

For example, when localizing, it can be a bit of hide and seek to find out what is a configuration (individual prefixes, phone types, custom field labels, etc,) and what is a translation from CiviCRM code (php/js/tpl).

The documentation for i18n/l10n is in the wiki. We've been working on improving it, but it still needs more work: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=88408149

PS: I moved your post to a new forum thread.

Mathieu
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