# Internationalization Support **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [July 21, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030 "2007-07-21T17:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/1 "2007-07-21T17:59:18Z")
I added a new branch to the repository today named ‘jargon’ and merged Kieth Bingman’s changes to support Gibberish in from ticket 507 ([http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507)). Jargon needs the following before it can be merged into head: - A combo box needs to be added to the login screen that will allow you to select your language - Support for auto selecting the language based on the content type requested by the User’s browser - A strategy that will allow extensions to offer multi-language support - More language translation files - More tests Hopefully this will give us a place to coordinate efforts on internationalization. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 7:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/2 "2007-07-21T19:03:55Z")
On Jul 21, 2007, at 5:58 PM, John W. Long wrote: > I added a new branch to the repository today named ‘jargon’ and merged > Kieth Bingman’s changes to support Gibberish in from ticket 507 > ([http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507)). Cool! I have discovered a few things missing in that patch this week and have uploaded the corrections. > Jargon needs the following before it can be merged into head: > > - A combo box needs to be added to the login screen that will allow > you > to select your language Per user languages were something I wanted to add, but I was waiting to see were you went with this. > - Support for auto selecting the language based on the content type > requested by the User’s browser I am not quite sure where this would fit in if you can select the language at login. > - A strategy that will allow extensions to offer multi-language > support This one is hard. The way Gibberish works is that it loads the language file. The easy way to do it is too paste the changes onto the language file, but this will get out of control very quickly. Ideally an extension will have it’s own Gibberish files. At very least, each extension that replaces a view needs to be updated to support Gibberish. Do you have any thoughts about this John? > - More language translation files I have a German translation done and will submit that as a patch. Another thing that will be needed is a good way to submit and review translation files. I am not sure you want patches for every language. > - More tests > > Hopefully this will give us a place to coordinate efforts on > internationalization. Keith B. Tel: +49-7731-7983830 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [http://keithbingman.com](http://keithbingman.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/3 "2007-07-21T20:20:04Z")
Keith B. wrote: > Cool! I have discovered a few things missing in that patch this week > and have uploaded the corrections. Can you create a patch for these against the Jargon branch and attach it to ticket 507? > > - A combo box needs to be added to the login screen that will allow > > you to select your language > > Per user languages were something I wanted to add, but I was waiting > to see were you went with this. Ok, thinking out loud here. Perhaps it should be configured under user/preferences instead. That way you wouldn’t have to select it every time you logged in. > > - Support for auto selecting the language based on the content type > > requested by the User’s browser If it hasn’t be configured on the User preferences page, I’d suggest that we auto-detect it when they log in. > > - A strategy that will allow extensions to offer multi-language > > support > > This one is hard. The way Gibberish works is that it loads the > language file. The easy way to do it is too paste the changes onto > the language file, but this will get out of control very quickly. > Ideally an extension will have it’s own Gibberish files. At very > least, each extension that replaces a view needs to be updated to > support Gibberish. Do you have any thoughts about this John? I think it’s just a matter of creating a load path for language translation files so that Gibberish knows to look in multiple places and can resolve conflicts between files based on load path precedence. Once that level of support has been added to Gibberish it should be fairly trivial to ensure that each extension’s translation files are loaded correctly. I’m definately open to suggestions here. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/4 "2007-07-21T20:42:09Z")
John W. Long wrote: > Wait a minute. I see that you created a new ticket for this: > > [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/518](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/518) > > I’ll apply it now. Done: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/466](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/466) – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/5 "2007-07-23T21:41:13Z")
Hello! how do i freeze radiant application to jargon branch? ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/6 "2007-07-21T20:35:08Z")
John W. Long wrote: > Keith B. wrote: > > > Cool! I have discovered a few things missing in that patch this week > > and have uploaded the corrections. > > Can you create a patch for these against the Jargon branch and attach it > to ticket 507? Wait a minute. I see that you created a new ticket for this: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/518](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/518) I’ll apply it now. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/7 "2007-07-23T21:50:49Z")
Keymone wrote: > Hello! > > how do i freeze radiant application to jargon branch? rake radiant:freeze:edge BRANCH=jargon I’ll be making some changes to the branch today, by the way. I got a patch to Gibberish accepted that obviates the need for the extension\_languages extension. Sean ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/8 "2007-07-24T10:08:10Z")
?? wrote: > I have Japanese translation file (ja.yaml) . And I want to submit > this file. > What should I do? Attach it to a ticket on the Trac site. – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/9 "2007-07-24T08:45:25Z")
Hello. I have Japanese translation file (ja.yaml) . And I want to submit this file. What should I do? – rish(Ryutatsu Ishigami) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 12:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/10 "2007-07-24T12:24:24Z")
Thank you for reply. I submitted translation file(ja.yaml). see below. [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507) – rish ( ryutatsu ishigami) removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/11 "2007-07-24T16:27:00Z")
Ryutatsu Ishigami(rish) wrote: > Thank you for reply. > I submitted translation file(ja.yaml). > > see below. > [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507) Committed: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/469](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/469) – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/12 "2007-07-24T18:16:23Z")
I’ve attached a Dutch translation (nl.yaml) as well. Perhaps it is wise to maintain a registry for translation maintainers? I volunteer for the Dutch version 🙂 Regards, Erik. John W. Long wrote: > John L. > [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) – Erik van Oosten [http://2008.rubyenrails.nl/](http://2008.rubyenrails.nl/) > **[Day to day stuff](http://day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/)** > > Experiences from a hard core JVM programmer. Likes to keep things simple. ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/13 "2007-07-24T17:38:34Z")
The jargon branch now supports language files loaded from the gem or vendor/radiant, extensions, and the local Radiant project. Many thanks to Chris W. for accepting my patch to Gibberish! [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/470](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/470) [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/471](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/471) To add a language file to your extension, just add a lang/ directory and put the appropriate YAML language files in that directory. Sean ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/14 "2007-07-24T18:27:17Z")
Erik van Oosten wrote: > I’ve attached a Dutch translation (nl.yaml) as well. Committed: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/472](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/472) – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/15 "2007-07-24T20:02:41Z")
I would love to translate into spanish, but need to get a working copy (or rather, I want to upgrade to this branch. I used: rake radiant:freeze:edge BRANCH=jargon But am running off of gems. It installed in /vendor/radiant/ and after starting and stopping the server, I can seem to see a difference. Surely I need to migrate stuff over. What needs to happen from here. I know for extensions it is rake db:migrate:extensions, but that is obviously wrong, and so is rake db:migrate:extensions. Any feedback would be welcome. Then I can start translations (unless it is already done). -Mark ---
**Author:** ![John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@John\_WSLong](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/John_WSLong)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internationalization-support/110030/16 "2007-07-24T19:46:36Z")
Perfect Erik Nu hoef ik dat niet meer te doen 🙂 Translated… thanks for saving me some work 🙂 Of course if any help is needed on the dutch version just shout. Peter. On 7/24/07, Erik van Oosten [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > John W. Long wrote: > > > John L. > > [http://2008.rubyenrails.nl/](http://2008.rubyenrails.nl/) > > [http://www.day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/](http://www.day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/) > > * * * > > Radiant mailing list > Post: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > Search: [http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/](http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/) > Site: [http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant](http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant) – met vriendelijke groet, Peter B. ---
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Oliver B. wrote: > John W. Long wrote: > > > Attach it to a ticket on the Trac site. > > German translation attached to ticket. I didn’t test it though, but it’s > valid YAML and "should work"™. Thank you. Committed: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/476](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/changeset/476) – John L. [http://wiseheartdesign.com](http://wiseheartdesign.com) ---
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John W. Long wrote: > Attach it to a ticket on the Trac site. German translation attached to ticket. I didn’t test it though, but it’s valid YAML and "should work"™. Oliver