Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of Translate

Timestamp:

06/01/09 05:42:06 (4 years ago)

Author:

datakid

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 As a result, translating Plumi itself is a smaller task than getting an entire Plumi site translated. For instance, things like the login and password translation strings are provided by the Plone Translation projects (see links below).
 
-Plumi translation follows the Plone translation system. All master translation files for any product have .pot as their extension. From this, we make a country specific translation by copying that master file to the relevant [http://www.iso.org/iso/english_country_names_and_code_elements country-code] file and is given a .po extension: '''plumi-example.pot''' becomes '''plumi-example-id.po''' for Indonesian, for example.
+Plumi translation follows the Plone translation system. All master translation files for any product have .pot as their extension. From this, we make a country specific translation by copying that master file to the relevant [http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php language-code] file and is given a .po extension: '''plumi-example.pot''' becomes '''plumi-example-id.po''' for Indonesian, for example.
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+Note that the language codes are '''not''' necessarily the same as the country codes! my is the Malaysian country code for instance, but the Burmese (Myanmar-ese?) language code. mm is the Malaysian language code and my is the Burmese country code (!!lols, daft)
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+Further differentiations are also available, the [http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]'s page on this is probably the best place to find further examples. 
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 == Getting the files ==