[TYPO3-english] Amharic Translation

[Historia]

That sounds great,

so I only have to find out how the extension call for the locale is 
working. I will set up a new server and try if the news2 extension is 
already calling the local function from the server.

Thanks a lot

Herbert

Am 6/9/2011 10:47 ጡዋት, schrieb Xavier Perseguers:
> Hi Herbert,
>
> Historia wrote:
>> No I have no backend in Amharic. My lanuage skills are not good enough
>> to translate that. But all amharic input is working fine in the backend.
>
> OK, now I understand what you mean!
>
> As long as your database is properly using UTF8 (and this is the case
> for you), you have absolutely no problem to store and display any
> character you want! That's why you can easily have texts written in
> Amharic and work on them in the BE.
>
>> I am using Typo3 for years now, but I am no programmer. So it is
>> difficult for me to find out where the programs get their translations.
>> There is no amharic translation of the weekdays in the locallang files
>> of the Newsslider and also not in the ttnews. I also didn't find
>> anything like that in the static info tables. I am running out of ideas
>> where these language files may be.
>
> This comes from your server itself! When you configure
>
> config.locale_all = <something-with-amharic>
>
> in your TS, then you allow any call to localized date (within your
> extension) to use the system's locales you defined and thus get the
> localized weekday and month in your output. This does not come from any
> translation within TYPO3 but, as said, it comes from your server.
>
>> I could then provide some of the locallang with amharic translations.
>
> If you want to provide some of the locallang with amharic translations,
> you should do following:
>
> 1) choose Amharic as language to use:
>
> config.language = am
>
> Then start making sure it works by doing something like that for, e.g.,
> tt_news:
>
> plugin.tt_news._LOCAL_LANG.am {
> latestHeader = ጡዋት
> }
>
> This should change the title "Breaking News:" by ጡዋት
>
> latestHeader is just one of the key I found in
> typo3conf/ext/tt_news/pi/locallang.xml
>
> You may create your own localization file for Amharic by reading one of
> my recent articles on that:
>
> http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3/articles/managing-localization-files.html
>
>
> Just stick to ll-XML in your case as you are using TYPO3 4.5.
>
> HTH
>