Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of DolLang

Timestamp:

Apr 22, 2012, 11:52:34 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

IgorL

Comment:

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DolLang

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 '''''This manual is for Dolphin 7.0.x'''''.[[BR]]
 '''''The manual for Dolphin 6 is available [http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/GenDolFAQs#HowcanItranslatemysiteintoadifferentlanguage here]'''''
+
+== Translating newly installed Dolphin sites ==
 
 To translate Dolphin's language file you need to:
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 2. Go to the Dolphin admin panel -> Settings -> Languages Settings, and in the 'Create New' block switch tabs to 'Import'. Browse for your system language file (in the root of this folder, like lang-ru.php) and click 'Import'. If everything is OK, you should see the new language in the 'Language Files' block.
 
-3. Copy all the '''modules''' directory to your dolphin root directory - it will create the language file in each module.
+3. Copy the whole '''modules''' directory from the folder you created it in (in our example it's the folder ''Org-Russian-v.1.3'') to your dolphin root directory - it will create the language file in each module.
 
 4. Go to the Dolphin admin panel -> Tools -> Modules,  and scroll down to the '''Installed Modules''' block. Select all modules and click the '''Recompile Language(s)''' button.
 
 5. Go to the Modules -> Orca Forum, click '''[L[Compile Lang:]]ru''' link to compile new language file specifically for orca forum.
+
+== Translating sites with existing members and content ==
+
+If you want to translate a site which already has registered members who added some content, it will be dangerous for your site to un-install modules to translate them.
+
+In this case, you should act a little bit differently.
+
+
+'''NOTE''': Only the default language keys will get translated. If you added any language keys after installation, you will get them un-translated.
+
+1. Extract the default language file from the original [http://get.boonex.com/Dolphin-v.7.0 Dolphin package].
+
+The file's location in the archive is '''install/langs/lang-en.php'''.
+
+Translate this file in a UTF-8 format. This [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ program] will be very useful for you to edit your files created in many encodings and convert them to UTF-8 ('''Encoding -> Convert to UTF-8 without BOM''').
+
+2. The steps 4-6 of the previous [Translating newly installed Dolphin sites] instructions should be repeated right in the way they were written above.