as Andy says, we will have to try it… certainly we can add the language… just have to see if we can copy the standard french into it…

I have added the fr-ca translation… unfortunately, I am not able to populate it with the standard french since none of the translations have been approved by the french validator at this time…

Mr Papa said

I have added the fr-ca translation… unfortunately, I am not able to populate it with the standard french since none of the translations have been approved by the french validator at this time…

Well then I’ll do the dirty job or copy/paste and this will let me double-check each sentence.  It’s no worse from any other language who also start from scratch. 

Do you plan to make change specifics to some language?  Just an example, for last post you use the word ‘ago’ like 23 seconds ago but in french we would put that word before the time, like ‘voilà 23 secondes’ or ‘il y a 23 secondes’.  My best bet for now is to blank it since ’23 seconds’ works very well here.

How many French validators do you have?

we have two french translators currently…   I have no idea why they have not approved any of the strings they have entered…  I willl get with Andy about contacting them and the option of adding a third validator…

Do you want to be a validator on the fr-ca?

Why not…  if I want to test live (because if I ever validate, I need to make sure sentences are fitting well) how do I proceed?  How do people download the PO file to put in /sp-resources/forum-language/simple-press?

You’ll see that yet I’m focusing on Front End as I can live with Admin panels in english for now.

Thanks

If you are registered on the GlotPress site then there will be export options on the translation project pages but it is the mo file that has the compiled translations and you need to download.

Yellow Swordfish said

If you are registered on the GlotPress site then there will be export options on the translation project pages but it is the mo file that has the compiled translations and you need to download.

Ok it’s not clear…  when you’ll give me Validator access, what do I need to do to test the translation live on my website?  I see the export options at the bottomand if I select MO then click Export, it is downloading sp-.mo and I thought people would not have to rename, obviously the name is wrong.  And do I only have to upload it to the path I gave in previous post then go select it somewhere in the options?

How do you plan to deal with specific language optimizations?  Mostly the use of single and plural because in english when it’s 0 you usually add a “s” like in “no messages” but in french for both 0 and 1 it’s single.

While I’m writing this I’m just noticing in the stats below that it is written “There are 1 moderators”.  I wonder if in the fute you plan to add “if, then” to better write such sentences.  “There is 1 moderator”.

Sorry I’m new to S:P and I don’t know how it was in version 1, 2, 3 and 4…  now I understand this is a brand new 5.0 and fine tuning is not fully done but my question is if you plan to later focus on such tiny details.

Regards

which translation is downloading like that??  you should not need to rename the file (no one else has)… but its possible the specific one is set up wrong…

We usually try to handle the single/plural like your moderator example properly… that one looks like it slipped through the cracks…

as to earlier question on plurals, I know they are handled different for localizations, but I will need to have Andy weigh in on if they are handled properly (the question hasnt come up before)…

of course, we try to handle all the little details… but as a team of two core coders who do this in their spare time, priorities get assigned and only so much can be done…

we are always looking for folks to join the team or help out, but the pay sucks

Mr Papa said

which translation is downloading like that??  you should not need to rename the file (no one else has)… but its possible the specific one is set up wrong…

French (Canada)

We usually try to handle the single/plural like your moderator example properly… that one looks like it slipped through the cracks…

Nice, I found one! 

as to earlier question on plurals, I know they are handled different for localizations, but I will need to have Andy weigh in on if they are handled properly (the question hasnt come up before)…

of course, we try to handle all the little details… but as a team of two core coders who do this in their spare time, priorities get assigned and only so much can be done…

we are always looking for folks to join the team or help out, but the pay sucks

Were you only time since the beginning?  This isn’t a small apps, a forum is pretty complex so I know there is a lot of work in this, congrats.  I was looking for a forum that looks similar to what we see with dedicated forum software and S:P looked the most promising.  Glad I can help a little with a translation.

Can’t wait to get validator access, I made a few mistakes so it creates duplicates that somethimes make no sense because I translated the wrong line so I guess I will be able to delete those.

ah, will go add the validator in a second…

the filename is fixed, sort of…   we use glotpress which was created for wp…  and thus far, there is not a wp locale defined for french canadian – evidently no one has ever translated WP into french canadian yet – at least not using the official wp translation site…  so the locale which we add to the file name was empty…  I have changed it to use the slug instead even though its not quite proper…  it will wp sp-fr-ca.mo… typically, if the wp locale is defined it would be more like sp-fr_CA.mo but not much I can do about that…

Yellow Swordfish said

it is the mo file that has the compiled translations and you need to download.

Ok so I can download the mo file but where should I put it and then where can I select to enable that translation?  I can’t find it in the forum administrations tabs.

first, you put the downloaded .mo file into wp-content/sp-resources/forum-language/simple-press

then you have to set the translation in your wp-config.php file… and this is where it could get tricky… the name of the .mo file (after the sp-) needs to agree with whatever language you may have already set there…

Well…  it’s weird.  I added the .mo file and the only thing I see that is translated is the About S:P box when I click the little ‘i’ circle.  Any idea?

what did you put in wp-config.php?  and what is the file name you put in wp-content/sp-resources/forum-language/simple-press?