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Translating PLA
phpLDAPadmin now uses gettext for all its translations - it has been using gettext since 0.9.8.
Under /locale/ in your PLA home directory, you will see many subdirectories, each with a:
- .po file - which contains the gettext message ID, and its translation for that locale, for example, _('Hello'), and
- a binary .mo file, which is the compiled gettext translation file
Updating the Translations
phpLDAPadmin is now using Launchpad to manage the translations.
By using Launchpad, it means that many people can update the translations at the same time, after which you can download the resulting mo and/or po file and immediately start to use it. You may even find that your language has been updated since PLA was released.
Uploading Translations
Launchpad allows you to upload your translated file, after you have been working on it offline. IE: You dont have to use their web interface.
If you want to use your favourite tool to translate PLA, then first download your language po file from Launchpad, edit it with your favourite tool, and then upload the result.
Some tools that you can use for editing .po files include:
Some guidelines
- Make sure your .po file is encoded with UTF8.
- Dont put any HTML in your translation (we want to remove all HTML in the LANG files)
Using the Translations
Just changing the variable
$config->custom->appearance['language'] = 'es_ES';
Will probably not suffice. You need that your underlying OS also has the correct locale. If you use Debian for example and you want to use the es_ES translation as per the example above, you will also need to build the es_ES.UTF-8 locale regardless of which locale you choose as your default for the OS. Simply:
dpkg-reconfigure locales
And make sure you select es_ES.UTF-8 from the list, and after that you will be prompted to select which is the default locale of your system. It need not be the locale of PLA.
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