How to translate indexu

[dody]

Indexu Deluxe uses gettext to support multilanguage. Gettext has two kind of files, the .po file and .mo file.

.po is a pure text file in utf-8 format. This file is used only for translation purpose. Indexu script will never read this file.

.mo is a compiled language file. This file is generated by gettext tool like poedit (www.poedit.net). Indexu will read this file. Unfortunately, the compiled file is platform independent. If you compile from windows, then it will work for windows only. The same thing with linux.


How to translate:
1. Download the tool poedit (www.poedit.net)
2. Open indexu.po file
3. Start translating, please be careful with notation like %1 %2 %3 etc, they're necessary for variable replacing
4. Save with poedit, it will generate new .po and .mo file. The .po file here contain your translation for further translation


The folder structure of language folder
/lang/(lang_id)/LC_MESSAGES/


How to construct the lang_id
It contain 2 code, the language and the country. Please see the attachment for complete code. The first code is the language_id (lowercase) followed by _ and then the country_id (uppercase)

For example:
id_ID : Bahasa Indonesia for Indonesia
jv_ID : Bahasa Jawa for Indonesia


Video tutorial is available here.

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[Bruceper]

Made thread sticky.

This is an awesome feature of IndexU Deluxe. This alone sets IndexU well and above many other directory scripts

[hdraye]

Hi
I am half way doing arabic, problem is that some phrases are vague, like "please another one", so I guess I'll have to do a review to find out better words depending on syntax.

I understand that the country code is for folder naming, so when I upload translation file for others I should have in my case in folders like this:

lang/ar_SA/LC_MESSAGES/indexu.mo

am I right?

regards

Hani

[dody]

That's correct.

About the phrase location, in .po file there is a reference where the exact location of the phrase in kosmos template. So you may take a look where the phrase will be used.

The .mo file is platform independent, you may deliver .po file here and i'd be happy to help to generate it into linux and windows compiled .mo file.

[user_not_found]

Why you make so difficult there were so many ways to be simpler why to make our life harder?

[hdraye]

Hi Dody
When I try to save file with charset windows-1256 it gives an error, this is the most used charset in Arabic, UTF-8 is ok, but not so popular.
Any ideas how to solve this as poedit site does not have anything regarding this matter.

[Bruceper]

Dody isn't making it difficult, he's using what could be considered standard software for translation. gettext is used for translations for dozens of programs including WordPress

[livedev]

I'm tranlating to spanish language, someone will need that files?

I'm going give to nicecoder team for distribution in client area.

[Bruceper]

We're looking for all languages, spanish is an excellent one.

[secero]

I have translated the new version 6.0 to Turkish. Do you have interest
for this?

I can translate it also to Dutch.

[Bruceper]

Dutch would be excellent too. When Dody is awake I will tell him to check this thread out to answer questions and/or comment.

[secero]

Okay, I read it then here, however.

But, I understand no interest for
Turkish.

[Bruceper]

No one said there was no interest in Turkish. As I said before we want as many languages as we can get.

[unlivingsava]

i'm busy now with nl_BE translation. (Belgian Dutch)

[unlivingsava]

i'm busy now with nl_BE translation. (Belgian Dutch)

nl_BE has been translated 100%, see preview on linktospace.com.
Suggestions are welcome
As translation reference, i'm official translation partner of Joomla! CMS system for the Dutch language so i have experience with the translating thing.