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Friendica translations
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Translation Process
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The strings used in the UI of Friendica is translated at [Transifex] [1] and then
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included in the git repository at github. If you want to help with translation
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for any language, be it correcting terms or translating friendica to a
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currently not supported language, please register an account at transifex.com
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and contact the friendica translation team there.
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Translating friendica is simple. Just use the online tool at transifex. If you
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don't want to deal with git & co. that is fine, we check the status of the
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translations regularly and import them into the source tree at github so that
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others can use them.
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We do not include every translation from transifex in the source tree to avoid
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a scattered and disturbed overall experience. As an uneducated guess we have a
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lower limit of 50% translated strings before we include the language (for the
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core message.po file, addon translation will be included once all strings of
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an addon are translated. This limit is judging only by the amount of translated
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strings under the assumption that the most prominent strings for the UI will be
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translated first by a translation team. If you feel your translation useable
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before this limit, please contact us and we will probably include your teams
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work in the source tree.
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If you want to get your work into the source tree yourself, feel free to do so
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and contact us with and question that arises. The process is simple and
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friendica ships with all the tools necessary.
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The location of the translated files in the source tree is
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/view/LNG-CODE/
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where LNG-CODE is the language code used, e.g. de for German or fr for French.
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For the email templates (the *.tpl files) just place them into the directory
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and you are done. The translated strings come as a "message.po" file from
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transifex which needs to be translated into the PHP file friendica uses. To do
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so, place the file in the directory mentioned above and use the "po2php"
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utility from the util directory of your friendica installation.
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Assuming you want to convert the German localization which is placed in
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view/de/message.po you would do the following.
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1. Navigate at the command prompt to the base directory of your
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friendica installation
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2. Execute the po2php script, which will place the translation
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in the strings.php file that is used by friendica.
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$> php util/po2php.php view/de/messages.po
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The output of the script will be placed at view/de/strings.php where
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friendica is expecting it, so you can test your translation immediately.
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3. Visit your friendica page to check if it still works in the language you
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just translated. If not try to find the error, most likely PHP will give
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you a hint in the log/warnings.about the error.
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For debugging you can also try to "run" the file with PHP. This should
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not give any output if the file is ok but might give a hint for
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searching the bug in the file.
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$> php view/de/strings.php
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4. commit the two files with a meaningful commit message to your git
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repository, push it to your fork of the friendica repository at github and
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issue a pull request for that commit.
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Utilities
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Additional to the po2php script there are some more utilities for translation
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in the "util" directory of the friendica source tree. If you only want to
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translate friendica into another language you won't need any of these tools most
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likely but it gives you an idea how the translation process of friendica
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works.
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For further information see the utils/README file.
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Known Problems
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Friendica uses the language setting of the visitors browser to determain the
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language for the UI. Most of the time this works, but there are some known
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quirks.
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One is that some browsers, like Safari, do the setting to "de-de" but friendica
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only has a "de" localisation. A workaround would be to add a symbolic link
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from
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$friendica/view/de-de
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pointing to
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$friendica/view/de
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Links
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-----
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[1]: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/friendica/
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