HowTo translate Redmine in your own language » History » Version 29
Johannes Gangsö, 2025-03-04 14:47
Added exact locations of the wiki_syntax help files, add mention about datepicker file too.
1 | 23 | David Robinson | h1. HowTo translate Redmine to your own language |
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2 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | |
3 | 23 | David Robinson | Redmine can easily be translated to any language. |
4 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | |
5 | 4 | Jean-Philippe Lang | There are a few things to translate: |
6 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | |
7 | 22 | Jean-Philippe Lang | * The main lang file, located at source:/trunk/config/locales in current trunk |
8 | 28 | Johannes Gangsö | * The wiki toolbar lang file, located in source:trunk/app/assets/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang/ |
9 | 29 | Johannes Gangsö | * The datepicker lang file, located in source:trunk/app/assets/javascripts/i18n/ |
10 | * The two bundled help files, located in source:app/views/help/wiki_syntax/common_mark under subdir named after the language subtag |
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11 | * The two bundled help files, located in source:app/views/help/wiki_syntax/textile under subdir named after the language subtag |
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12 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | |
13 | 23 | David Robinson | Say you want to translate Redmine to Finnish (@fi@ as defined in the "IANA Language Subtag Registry":http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry): |
14 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | |
15 | # Copy @/config/locales/en.yml@ to @/config/locales/fi.yml@. |
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16 | # Copy @/app/assets/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang/jstoolbar-en.js@ to @/app/assets/javascripts/jstoolbar/lang/jstoolbar-fi.js@. |
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17 | 29 | Johannes Gangsö | # Copy @/app/assets/javascripts/i18n/datepicker-en.js@ to @/app/assets/javascripts/i18n/datepicker-fi.js@ |
18 | # Copy @/app/views/help/wiki_syntax/common_mark/en/*@ to @/app/views/help/wiki_syntax/common_mark/fi/*@. |
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19 | 28 | Johannes Gangsö | # Copy @/app/views/help/wiki_syntax/textile/en/*@ to @/app/views/help/wiki_syntax/textile/fi/*@. |
20 | 22 | Jean-Philippe Lang | # Change the @general_lang_name@ key with the full name of the new language in @fi.yml@ (eg. @general_lang_name: Finnish@). |
21 | # Clear the application cache to make the new language available in Redmine (eg. @rake tmp:cache:clear@). |
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23 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | Then: |
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25 | 29 | Johannes Gangsö | # Translate every string in the copied files. |
26 | 23 | David Robinson | # Test your translation with the rake tasks listed [[HowTo_translate_Redmine_in_your_own_language#Test-rake-tasks|below]]. If you get errors related to locales, you must fix them. |
27 | 18 | Azamat Hackimov | # Submit your translation "here":http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/issues/new?tracker_id=3 (as plain file or patch, login required). Select "Translation" in Category listbox. |
28 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | # Wait until your Issue will be fixed. |
29 | 18 | Azamat Hackimov | # Enjoy your work :) |
30 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | # GOTO 4 if needed. |
31 | 21 | Toshi MARUYAMA | |
32 | h3. Test rake tasks |
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34 | 26 | Go MAEDA | Test if translation files can be parsed without errors and there are no missing keys |
35 | 21 | Toshi MARUYAMA | |
36 | <pre> |
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37 | rake locales:check_interpolation |
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38 | </pre> |
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40 | Whole test (Optional) |
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42 | <pre> |
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43 | rake test |
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44 | </pre> |
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46 | 23 | David Robinson | "rake test" takes a very long time and it runs automatically on CI server. |
47 | 21 | Toshi MARUYAMA | See [[Continuous integration]]. |
48 | 16 | Azamat Hackimov | |
49 | h2. Restrictions |
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50 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | |
51 | 14 | Azamat Hackimov | *All these files must be UTF-8 encoded.* Do not use HTML entities in translated strings. |
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53 | 23 | David Robinson | Check that your files do not have a BOM (Byte-order mark). A BOM can be removed with the following command: |
54 | 14 | Azamat Hackimov | |
55 | <pre> |
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56 | awk '{if(NR==1)sub(/^\xef\xbb\xbf/, "");print}' < oldfile > newfile |
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57 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | </pre> |
58 | 11 | Harri H | |
59 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | As of 2009-02-21, *only updates based on the new translation files* (found in @/config/locales@) *should be submitted.* |
60 | 11 | Harri H | |
61 | 1 | Jean-Philippe Lang | h2. Updates to the language files |
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63 | 23 | David Robinson | The file: "@en.yml@" acts as the main language file. You can check if it has new strings by running: |
64 | 12 | Jean-Philippe Lang | <pre>rake locales:update</pre> |
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66 | 23 | David Robinson | This copies any new strings to other translation files (with the English translation as default value). |