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hlevinson

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Need help with civicrm.mo file process and location
September 15, 2009, 05:32:02 pm
I am trying to translate CiviCRM (3.0 beta 2) interface strings using the Pootle process.

I started with the en_GB file
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civicrm-core.po, copied and edited to put in a few of my own strings.

I created a folder

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/var/www/sites/mysite/modules/civicrm/l10n/en_US_civi
I created the civicrm.mo file with this

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msgcat *.po | msgfmt -vo civicrm.mo -
and put it in the new folder.

In CiviCRM I went here

Administer -> Configure -> Global Settings -> Localization

But my language was not available.

Am I missing a step in Drupal, CiviCRM, or packing my translation?
Do I need to download/clone/edit ALL the en_GB po files before running msgcat?

I searched the forum and didn't find my solution.

thanks,
Harry

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Re: Need help with civicrm.mo file process and location
September 15, 2009, 11:34:12 pm
Can you clarify a bit what are you trying to accomplish? Do you need a ‘custom English’ translation, or are you trying to translate to some other language?

Quote from: hlevinson on September 15, 2009, 05:32:02 pm
I created a folder

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/var/www/sites/mysite/modules/civicrm/l10n/en_US_civi

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In CiviCRM I went here

Administer -> Configure -> Global Settings -> Localization

But my language was not available.

The locale (and the directory) needs to be in an xx_YY format, so en_US_civi doesn’t work (‘en_XX’ for a custom English ‘localisation’, for example).
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Re: Need help with civicrm.mo file process and location
September 16, 2009, 07:13:28 am
Yes, I'm trying to do a custom English-language version. I need to change some text that is used in the interface in CiviCRM, but all the new text will be in American English.

I changed the directory name to "en_US" as you suggested, it didn't change anything inside CiviCRM.

You wrote "locale (and the directory) needs to be in an xx_YY format". Are you suggesting there's a "locale" somewhere that I need to make somewhere? If so, where is that?

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Re: Need help with civicrm.mo file process and location
September 16, 2009, 07:45:43 am
OK, I found one problem with my last change:  obviously "en_US" is the default set in my system.

I changed the folder name to "en_OO" and could now see a new entry in the dropdown lists here

Administer -> Configure -> Global Settings -> Localization


I was able to select my new Default Language. Also, I saw at least one text change in the UI.

However I now see other places that have NOT been updated. Is this because I started with a version 2.x PO file?

Do I need to extract strings myself to create a version 3.0 file? Is someone already doing this and perhaps I should just wait a few days or what?

thanks for the quick response...

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Re: Need help with civicrm.mo file process and location
September 19, 2009, 03:15:53 pm
Quote from: hlevinson on September 16, 2009, 07:45:43 am
OK, I found one problem with my last change:  obviously "en_US" is the default set in my system.

Because most CiviCRM installs are in American English and it’s also the source translation, en_US is short-circuited to skip the translation mechanism altogether.

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I changed the folder name to "en_OO" and could now see a new entry in the dropdown lists here

Administer -> Configure -> Global Settings -> Localization

I was able to select my new Default Language. Also, I saw at least one text change in the UI.

Great, this is how it’s supposed to work. :)

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However I now see other places that have NOT been updated. Is this because I started with a version 2.x PO file?

Can you explain a bit what you mean by this? Do these places have the same string that is translated in the part that works, or some other string that you also translated?

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Do I need to extract strings myself to create a version 3.0 file?

I did that a couple of days ago. You can fetch the v3.0 files from http://svn.civicrm.org/l10n/branches/v3.0/
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Re: Need help with civicrm.mo file process and location
September 23, 2009, 07:34:36 am
Sorry for the delay, I didn't have "Notify" set.

I saw some strings that were not converted, but I believe it was my fault. I forgot that I need to add entries for multi-word phrases that include the words I want to translate.

I will check out your new file soon.

Thanks a lot for your help, I think I'm good now.

Harry
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