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I'm sure it's fine to add common HTML tags in the .ini files while translating, but I'd like verification. For example, I noticed that in
en-GB.com_config.ini (in Administrator), some of the tooltips use the emphasis tag for the title names, but one or two titles lacked that, so I added them. Also and .
definitely does work to end a line!
Generally, I'll stick to what I see in the original en-GB file, but inserting common tags and escapes might be helpful, just want to know what you think.

I suggest you report your findings in the 1.5 Q&T forum in order for devs to correct the output if necessary.
http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,199.0.html

Please do state the SVN number or date of nightly build as all strings may have been corrected since RC1.

No errors, just a matter of styling! I just wanted 'permission' to use tags.
I'll just go ahead and use them, they work fine.

HTML can be used in ini files but should NOT contain the equal sign (=), otherwise the PHP function parse_ini_file which is probably used by Joomla to read these files will throw an error.

Thank you! I'm glad I've been cautious about it and just used the tag.

Cindio
There is absolutely no problem using HTML to improve the appearance of the language files, and how you choose to do that for your own translation is entirely up to you. There are many examples that I would like to improve in the en-GB files but time constraints prohibit this for now. This is more feature request then essential priority. Making sure the translation strings are there and complete are my priority for the moment.
Regards

Andy

ps the same goes for cleaning up the deprecated strings that still exist in abundance at the present time, there is nothing stopping their removal "locally" if that is what is desired just list these in the translation together with the file name and they can be removed from en_GB as I get chance.

Hi,

Do you know how to add html tags in a language file of Joomla?

like this:


Thank you.

Hi giannis_rx,

Try adding the <a href for the url, if that is what you are asking

Hi, thanks for reply,

I take this in email, html does not work.

You alreade registered.<br />Go back <a href="http://www.joomla.org">http://www.joomla.org</a>

Any Ideas?

Ok, we had a similar report in the last days concerning another string from the ini-files.

Will have a closer look at this one too

Anybody got a solution for adding a link to the language?

thanks
kobi

One can add a "normal" link to any string in Joomla.
If the string is displayed on site, the html will be correctly displayed.
If the string is sent by mail then it should be formatted as
<a href="http://www.joomla.org"</a>
The url will be clickable but will display the tags in the mail client.

One could add http headers in the string in order to display formatting in the email client, similar to a Newsletter, but that would be quite heavy.

Concerning the use of html tags generally, it may depend on the string. In some cases, it is advised to use html entities for the tags and special characters as "="

Exemple:
<jdoc:include type = "message" /> in the description of an extension will not display.
But
&lt;jdoc:include type &#x003D; "message" /&gt;
will.

The use of single quotes (and other special chars as | ) is strictly depending on the way the string is parsed to display.
They may have to be escaped to avoid breaking some code
\' and \|

Example
ICON_SEP=\|
in language/en-GB/en-GB.ini