Translating 3.1.x and using existing 3.0.12 translations?

colnector · Post by **colnector** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:58 am

This forum is currently empty so probably a good post would include answers to the obvious questions:
* How to translate to other languages?
* How about importing from 3.0.x translations?
* Have there been significant improvements that would easily allow multi-language forums? So far, we had to always download all existing language packs instead of a single multi-lingual pack that will include all up-to-date translations.

Thanks

Ancica · Post by **Ancica** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:06 pm

colnector wrote:How to translate to other languages?

"safest" way is to translate original english language pack "from a to z".
translation cannot be done "blindly" in the sense that one "only translates" what is written. one needs to install phpbb and needs to "check" every translated item to be sure that it is well-translated and that it is "in the spirit of the language".
some items cannot be translated literally cause they "sound strange" or do not make sense when translated so often happens that one word/sentence in english becomes five words/sentences in other language and vice versa.
problem are and different linguistic rules (e.g. plural_rules)...
translating language pack is not a couple of hours work but few months work, so if one wants to do it must be aware of it.

colnector wrote:How about importing from 3.0.x translations?

language code changes for translators do not exist anymore so translator needs to compare (e.g. i use winmerge) the latest version of the english language pack (s)he worked on with the latest published version of the english language pack and translate/apply all changes to "hers/his" language pack.
e.g. in my case (i develop/maintain croatian language pack since 2003) i translated/applied all language code changes from 3.0.12 to 3.1.0. and it works fine. same can be done with any 3.0.x language pack.

LPRI · Post by **LPRI** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 7:51 pm

Hello Ančica !
Kad će biti hrvatski jezik za 3.1 ?

Ancica · Post by **Ancica** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:02 pm

LPRI wrote:Hello Ančica !
Kad će biti hrvatski jezik za 3.1 ?

u can download it from my web page. ((;

LPRI · Post by **LPRI** » Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:03 pm

O Yes , yes ljubim te !

yasser33311 · Post by **yasser33311** » Sat Nov 01, 2014 4:56 pm

hwllo
use meld to translate phpbb3.1 from old translation 3.0.12
it's run on linux amd windows

Anonymous_et_EE · Post by **Anonymous_et_EE** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 12:38 pm

yasser33311 wrote:hwllo
use meld to translate phpbb3.1 from old translation 3.0.12
it's run on linux amd windows

Avast blocked this.

yasser33311 · Post by **yasser33311** » Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:11 pm

Anonymous_et_EE wrote:
yasser33311 wrote:hwllo
use meld to translate phpbb3.1 from old translation 3.0.12
it's run on linux amd windows

Avast blocked this.

i use it on ubuntu & debian

GunChleoc · Post by **GunChleoc** » Fri Nov 14, 2014 9:32 am

Meld is an excellent tool for Linus. On Windows, I use Winmerge.

The new plural rules are documented in the wiki: https://wiki.phpbb.com/Plural_Rules

Insost-2 · Post by **Insost-2** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 5:19 pm

LPRI wrote:O Yes , yes ljubim te !

+11111111111

Thx Ančice

Ancica · Post by **Ancica** » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:29 pm

Insost-2 wrote:+11111111111

Thx Ančice

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