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TranslateTiki

Basics

Some things you should know about translating the UI of Tiki:

  • Tiki supports any language which may be encoded and displayed using the UTF-8 encoding
  • The language directory is here: "lang/"
  • Every language has it own subdirectory using ISO-639-1 naming, for example: "lang/en/"
  • The base language of Tiki is english (en)
  • There are 2 translation resources that contain all translatable Tiki strings:
    • language.php
    • language.js
  • The list of translation strings is a php array, where the original string is the key and the translation string is the value
  • You can override default translations by using a custom.php file (for example: "lang/en/custom.php")

How to translate the UI?

You have a number of options:

  1. Signup with Transifex, translate, download the translation file than upload it to your Tiki from the user interface ( read more here )
  2. Use the translation interface on your Tiki: this way you can store your translations in the database so they will not be overwritten when you upgrade your Tiki (read more here LINK)
  3. Use a custom.php to store your translations (read more here LINK)
  4. Direct translation of language.php via text editor: this migh be overwritten when you upgrade your Tiki, so make a backup before
 Be careful with manual editing of language.php
If you break the PHP syntax, you will get a white screen of death!

How to contribute?

You can contribute translations via Transifex. It is really easy, no technical knowledge is need, just:

  1. Sign up at https://www.transifex.com/
  2. Find Tiki project (https://www.transifex.com/tiki/) and join the translation effor as a translator, reviewer or coordinator (http://docs.transifex.com/introduction/#user-roles-in-transifex)
  3. Start translating!

 Wait, how about translation by SVN commits? Can I still do that?
Yes, you can, but you really should not. Transifex is so much easier!

How to customize

  • If you dont like a translation, you can:
    • create a custom.php file and change the text
    • overwrite language.php in your local installation





Created by: Last Modification: Wednesday 13 June 2018 10:54:08 GMT-0000 by Marc Laporte
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