Redmine

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 at source:/trunk/config/locales in current trunk

# The calendar lang file, located in source:trunk/public/javascripts/calendar/lang

# The wiki toolbar lang file, located in source:trunk/public/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang

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 @/config/locales/fi.yml@ and translate every strings this file contains.

# Copy @/public/javascripts/calendar/lang/calendar-en.js@ to @/public/javascripts/calendar/lang/calendar-fi.js@ and translate every strings this file contains (mainly day and month names).

# Copy @/public/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang/jstoolbar-en.js@ to @/public/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang/jstoolbar-fi.js@ and translate the strings.

# Test your translation with command <pre>rake test</pre> If you get errors related to locales, you must fix them.

h2. Restrictions

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

Check that your files not have BOM (Byte-order mark). BOM can be removed with command:

<pre>

awk '{if(NR==1)sub(/^\xef\xbb\xbf/, "");print}' < oldfile > newfile

</pre>

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:

<pre>rake locales:update</pre>

This copies the new strings to other translation files (with the English translation as default value).