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Hello David,

There is currently no way to support locales for the tracker names, because the tracker names are user configurable, and having the localised would mean that you'd have to localise each tracker name you come up with. If you are a little adventurous and know your way around ruby a little bit, I could point you towards what steps would be necessary to make the tracker names localisable, although this would be at your own risk, and would require patching the core somewhat, which in turn could mean more work or even breakage on redmine updates.

Sure, give me some tips and I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out.

Ok, so just to get the basics out of the way: the function l is the function redmine internally uses to localise strings, or to be precise, to replace a symbol by a localised string. If e.g. there is a call l(:label_issue_view_all), this returns the localised string for label_issue_view_all as defined in the .yml of your locale.

The first step to get internationalisation will therefore be to append the symbols/strings you want to localise to the .yml files, you could do that on the core redmine language files, but it will be easier for future upgrades to put that in a plugin (see the plugin tutorial for more information, feel free to ask if you have any questions). So this gives you $REDMINE_DIR/vendor/plugins/redmine_translate_tracker_names/config/locales/$LOCALE.yml files, with content of the form:

en:
  tracker_bug: Bug
  tracker_feature: Feature
  tracker_support: Support

1. either track down each and every time a tracker's name is shown in a view and replace that with something like l(("tracker_" + the_trackers_name_variable).to_sym), that would be the safest, but also the most tedious way, and the trackers would get ordered according to the english names rather than the localised name.
2. add a method localised_name to the Tracker model, and replace all calls to Tracker#name with Tracker#localised_name, as safe as above, but also tedious and a change to the core,
3. override Tracker#name, that would even work from a plugin and wouldn't need any modification to the core (just thought of that while browsing the source). You'd just have to make Tracker#name look something like that:
   

   def name
     l(("tracker_" + read_attribute(:name).downcase.gsub(/\s/, '_')).to_sym)
   end
   

   
   One improvement to this could be to catch cases where no string is defined for this symbol in the desired locale and make it output the name instead of anything localised. Also note that I don't know if l functions in models already, to you'd have to try this out on your own.

Ok, I think this is the gist of it, ping me again if you need some more details.