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Revision 11 (Harri H, 2009-07-04 18:47) → Revision 12/27 (Jean-Philippe Lang, 2009-12-17 21:00)

h1. HowTo translate Redmine in your own language 

 Redmine can easily be translated in any language. 

 There are a few things to translate: 

 # The main lang file, located in @/config/locales@ (or @/lang@ for 0.8.x and prior versions) before r2493) 
 # The calendar lang file, located in @/public/javascripts/calendar/lang@ 
 # The wiki toolbar lang file, located in @/public/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang@ (for r1074 and above) 

 Say you want to translate Redmine in Finnish (@fi@ as defined in the "IANA Language Subtag Registry":http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry): 

 # Copy @/config/locales/en.yml@ to @fi.yml@ and translate every strings this file contains. 
 # Copy @/public/javascripts/calendar/lang/calendar-en.js@ to @calendar-fi.js@ and translate every strings this file contains (mainly day and month names). 
 # Copy @/public/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang/jstoolbar-en.js@ to @jstoolbar-fi.js@ and translate the strings. 
 # Test your translation with command <pre>rake test</pre> If you get errors related to gloc/locales, you must fix them. 

 *All these files must be UTF-8 encoded.* Do not use HTML entities in translated strings. 

 You can submit your translation "here":http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues/new?tracker_id=3 (login required) if you want it to be added to the next release. 

 As of 2009-02-21, *only updates based on the new translation files* (found in @/config/locales@) *should be submitted.* 

 h2. Updates to the language files 

 File @en.yml@ acts as the main language file. You can check if it has new strings by running: 
 running <pre>rake locales:update</pre> 

 locales:update</pre>. This copies the new strings to other translation files (with the English translation as default value).