[TYPO3-english] Amharic Translation

[Kay Strobach]

Hi,

perhaps we should add amharic to the pottle server this way the language
can be used in TYPO3 in the near future?!

Also people may translate them without modifying the extensions directly.

Regards
Kay

Am 06.09.2011 10:55, schrieb 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
>>
> 


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