Multilang?

Hi lopar, welcome to Panther

Yes - although there is no documentation on this at the moment, it is very possible to add different languages. We actually plan to add as many languages in the core as possible. Here are the steps in creating a new language:

1. In the 'lang' folder, create a new sub directory with the language name you wish (in English). Example, French or German.

2. Now, copy all the files from the 'English' folder into the new folder you created.

3. Finally, open the files in a text editor, and you will find an array, with strings in like below:

   'No plugins' => 'You must select at least one plugin to remove.', 

   Note: This was taken from lang/English/admin_addons.php

4. Translate the string on the right.

5. Save the file, and you should be able to select this from the admin options page, and in your profile.

Let me know if you'd like further assistance. I will be more than happy to help.

Yes - although some may very well be missing language indexes, and there are files that need to be added which weren't available in FluxBB. Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks. Looking into this now.

German

Thx, works - now I got this

Ok, create an empty file warnings.php. Got this

I know it's now my job to create and fill warnings.php but I think a fallback to english would be good idea, better a double fallback.

If a special language file doesn't exist english should be loaded per default, if a special string isn't available (cause the lang file needs a rework) only this english string will be shown instead.

It's not professional to see an error message or nothing . 

In moment the only chance is to set the language completely back to english.

Yeah, it's really hard to "synchronize" all translators on open source projects .

I know I'm talking about - have worked for a lot of open source projects as translator ...

Or maybe there should a special developer / translator mode to see such errors?

• Last edited by cyberman (06-09-2015 10:47:29)

I'm trying to do that  - and have seen it on my "translation console": Some of your lang files are ANSI encoded, and some files are in UTF8.

Not sure it this will make trouble on any place  ...

• Last edited by cyberman (09-09-2015 19:28:46)

Can't find any language files from 1.0.8 with ANSI encoding. Was this a fresh install of 1.0.9 you tried?

Have located a lot of redundancies (I'm currently at admin_options.php) - for example

They are only examples. There are some more . And they are available in more than one lang file ... think they should be in /lang/common.php

There are 47 lang files  - AFTER translation most of them it's a little bit difficult to say where I've read the redundancies.

The posted snippet is for example inside admin_addons.php, admin_options.php and admin_smilies.php. 

But think there are some more ...

I know - performance rulez -  but sometimes I have the feeling core lang files should be grouped and reduced/merged. After alphabetical ordering it's a lot easier to find redundancies ...

Ahh, ok, Twig is your favourite  ... maybe it could be merged by default with Twital

https://github.com/goetas/twital

Yes, will create a ticket ...

Yeah - easier syntax was the reason for suggesting Twital .

And yes, Twig is a full size framework. 

That was the reason I suggest Fat Free (Micro) Framework in the past - has only 89 kB . Maybe the better/best solution for a Fat Free Forum .