[TYPO3-translators] Availability of new translations

[Christian Hennecke]

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:26:36 +0200, Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] wrote:

Hi!

>> It does *not* work. The process does fetch translations but they are
>> not of the current level. It looks like the TER hasn't been updated for
>> a while.
>
>How do you check that translations are not up tp date in TER?
>I discovered something yesterday.
>
>If extension or core has translations inside their language files, anything from language pack will be ignored. May be this is what happens in your case?

No, I did a "low-level" check. I removed all the translations, let the
extension manager download the translations again, and took a look at
the ZIP files. Only old translations inside.

>> Anyway, how is updating the extensions supposed to work? I mean, we
>> cannot tell all users to install ll-XML and edit the language files to
>> move the strings to external files so they new translations get
>> enabled.
>
>If you moved translation to a separate file, you can contact extension's author and ask him to remove translations from xml. This is easy to do without llxmltranslate.
>
>TYPO3 4.2 will give priority to language packs and ignore translations in extensions if corresponding file exists in language pack.

Great!

Christian Hennecke