This post was written to help Amharic translators, therefore the iso is UTF8 for Joomla 1.0.x
As it is just a question of changing language names and locale to be valid for all languages, I post it here as a sticky for all.
Any question, please start a new thread with your language name.
Note concerning font usage:
Change all the site CSS in template_css.css to use Arial as first choice when a font is defined.
// for Amharic, maybe different for your languageARIAL contains the ge'ez glyphsQuote:
font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
1. Joomla 1.0.13 +Create an Amharic language pack lets your users get front-end strings in Amharic.
Copy english.php change name to amharic.php
// for Amharic, maybe different for your languageCopy english.ignore.php change name to amharic.ignore.php
// for Amharic, maybe different for your languageCopy english.xml change name to amharic.xml
// for Amharic, maybe different for your languageA. Edit php files, use Amharic keyboard with utf 8 aware editor (Babelpad on Windows, BBEdit on Macintosh)
// for Amharic, maybe different for your languageChange strings:
example (parts in red have to be translated):
// Site page note found
define( '_404', '
We\'re sorry but the page you requested could not be found.' );
define( '_404_RTS', '
Return to site' );
[etc.]
// common
DEFINE('_LANGUAGE','
en');
// change here to am[etc.]
/** templates/*.php */
DEFINE('_ISO','charset=
iso-8859-1');
// change here to UTF-8 // for Amharic, maybe different for your language[etc.]
Save the files as UTF8 NO BOM encoding.
// for Amharic, maybe different for your language[Back-slashes have to be added before apostrophes as an escape]
[The amharic.ignore.php contains terms which will be ignored by search]
B. Edit amharic.xmlfrom
Quote:
English
1.0.0
2004-09-20
Joomla! Project
admin@joomla.org english.php
english.ignore.php
to
Quote:
Amharic
// for Amharic, maybe different for your language 1.0.0
2004-09-20
Joomla! Project
admin@joomla.org amharic.php
// for Amharic, maybe different for your language amharic.ignore.php
// for Amharic, maybe different for your language Save with the iso-8559-1 encoding.
Zip the 3 files together. The package is ready.
Refer to post above to create a UTF8 site, as well as here:
index.php/topic,174443.0.htmlQuote:
DEFINE('_ISO','charset=iso-8859-1');// change here to UTF-8
has to be changed for the english.php file
Use your Amharic keyboard to change in back-end menus, titles, contents to Amharic.
2. Joomla 1.51. 5 is full utf8
Same solution for the fonts used in CSS.
One is NOT forced to use Amharic language files and still may enter Amharic strings in Articles, etc..
Amharic language packs lets users switch on the fly languages in admin and site. Interface and common strings.
This is not an automatic translation of the articles themselves or of the titles, menus, etc. of the data, but all interface.
Language files are separate .ini files in 3 groups:
Installation
Site
Admin
The easiest solution here is to install last nightly build
http://dev.joomla.org/content/view/17/60/#nightlyand when sure it is working OK, install this component
http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla_1_5_tr1/frs/It is then easy to create a new Amharic package (takes time to translate though and it is suggested to do that as a group)
Name of package should be:
am-ET // for Amharic, maybe different for your languageLocale should be:
am_ET.utf8, am_ET.UTF-8, am_ET, amh_ET, am, amh, amharic, ethiopic // for Amharic, maybe different for your languageIf, for any reason, some ini or xml language files are edited manually with a text editor, they have to be saved with the encoding UTF8 NO BOM.
We would be glad to add to the new Joomla 1.5 the xx-XX language packs.
In case you volunteer, start a new thread.
