[TYPO3-translators] error in LL-XML page and disappearing trasnaltions?

[Stefano Cecere]

thank you, Dmitry, everything is very clear now.

i guess i should put these explanations somewhere in the Wiki...

hugs

stefano


On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:56:30 +0100, Dmitry Dulepov  
<dmitry.dulepov+t3ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On 2010-01-20 16:20:39 +0200, Stefano Cecere said:
>> wow... 6 years into typo3 translation and discover to not have  
>> understood anything ah ah !
>> i have always translated in the server, and then get the translation  
>> via EM (after 24 hours), thinking that those translations would be kept  
>> safe.
>
> That's right.
>
>> you mean that whenever an author install its ext, the translation are  
>> resetted?
>
> Authors cannot install new extensions. Only translation server admins  
> can.
>
>> so i should export and send the translation file to the ext author to  
>> be included into the ext, right?
>
> No. When you translate, you should okk where your translations are  
> saved. There are two modes:
> - they are saved back into the extension
> - they are saved into a separate file
>
> The first mode is good only for private extensions. It is worthless for  
> the translation server. If translation goes back to extension's  
> locallang.xml, than overriding the extension overrides locallang.xml  
> files with translations. So the first mode is not for you :)
>
> The second mode creates translations in separate files. This way they  
> can be obtained through TER&EM.
>


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