[TYPO3-mvc] localization in 6.2.0

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Thomas,

> a few questions about the xlf localization, as i worked only with the
> extbase 2.3 before and are now a bit confused how it works.
> 
> 1. I didn't get my changed labels shown in frontend until i deleted
> everything in typo3temp/Cache/Data/l10n. Deleting cache via backend
> didn't do anything for localisation. Is this the way to go?

Yes, prior to TYPO3 6.2 there was a "clear language cache" option you
could activate, starting with 6.2 there is a "clear system cache" that
does that (apart from other stuff) and is automatically activated if you
set up your environment as Development.

> 2. If i create a f.e. de.locallang.xlf, i have to have the subnodes
> <source> and <target> in the node <trans-unit>. If i now change the
> <source> in locallang.xlf, do i need to change the source in
> de.locallang.xlf too? Or can i have <target> nodes also in locallang.xlf
> (english) so i change the <target> node instead of the source node?
> To be more explicit: I don't want to update all <source> nodes in all
> *.locallang.xlf files if the english label should change.

The <source> from other languages is not read, so you may omit it but it
is part of the XLIFF format so it should stay. Best is of course to use
a proper environment to generate those files and not edit them manually.
Unfortunately there is still AFAIK no corresponding TYPO3 extension
currently doing this job. For extensions present on
http://translation.typo3.org this is done automatically, in my case I
set up my own Pootle server for a few of my private extensions. If you
need to work "a lot" with localizations, you should think about it...

Regards
Xavier

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Xavier Perseguers
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