# Translating RForum - all the quirks **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Forum\ **Created:** [April 28, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102 "2006-04-28T17:25:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trebron)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102/1 "2006-04-28T17:25:46Z")
I’ve recently made a Hungarian translation. In the process I had to face the fact that translating the language.yaml file is far from enough, as numerous strings are scattered in various rforum files. I made a list to help fellow translators. And I definietly hope that I don’t have to start all over again translating with 0.3, these should be moved to a language.yaml file sooner or later. hint-hint 😉 Here are my findings (I think it’s not documented elsewhere): 1. first of all lang/yourlanguage.yaml 1b) family and first name order. > in my language it is in a reverse order compared to english, so i had to hack this in hu.yaml, as otherwise it would had been too difficult, as there are many surname and firstname string in the rforum files 1. emails > app/views/mailer/yourlanguage 1. â??blockedâ?? (IP address blocked feedback) > app/controllers/application.rb 1. â??IP is already in block listâ?? > app/controllers/admin\_controller.rb 1. â??User informationâ?? page name at top (clicking on the user list and then on a user) > app/controllers/user\_controller.rb 6a) â??Editâ?? (in the forum list, if the logged in user is an admin) > app/views/forum/list.rhtml 6b) â??[add]â?? string after Available Forums if logged in user is an admin) > app/views/forum/list.rhtml 7a) â??Save / delete forumâ?? + confirmation (buttons in the forum edit menu for admins) > app/views/forum/edit.rhtml 7b) â??Name, descriptionâ?? (text in the forum edit menu) > app/views/forum/edit.rhtml 1. â??Searchâ??, â??Search resultsâ?? (Button in the search menu, results) > app/views/forum/search.rhtml 1. Date format (depends on format\_datetime) > app/helpers/application\_helper.rb 1. â??Forum:â??, â??Subject:â??, â??Text:â??, â??Submitâ?? buttons, â??anonymousâ?? user, email as well (when posting) > app/views/topic\_postform.rhtml 1. â??authorâ??, â??dateâ??, â??guestâ?? (at the top of posts) > app/views/topic/\_post.rhtml 1. " wrote:" string when replying with quote app/controllers/topic\_controller.rb ---
**Author:** ![trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trebron)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102/2 "2006-07-12T11:38:14Z")
Excellent, thanks for the listing 🙂 I am working on a norwegian translation, and it’s pretty much done (the no.yaml). However I am getting some errormessages when trying to fire up WEBrick when using special norwegian characthers (that are indeed needed) in the translation. A copy/paste follows, any suggestions are welcome 🙂 stian@x303:~/rails/rforum-0.2$ RAILS\_ENV=production script/server =\> Booting WEBrick… ./lib/localization.rb:51:in `iconv': "øk" (Iconv::IllegalSequence) from ./lib/localization.rb:51:in`load\_localized\_strings’ from ./lib/localization.rb:50:in `load_localized_strings' from ./lib/localization.rb:49:in`load\_localized\_strings’ from ./lib/localization.rb:42:in `load_localized_strings' from ./config/app.rb:16 from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require' from ./config/environment.rb:52 from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:52 from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active\_support/dependencies.rb:147:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/commands/server.rb:30 from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in`require’ from script/server:3 stian@x303:~/rails/rforum-0.2$ ---
**Author:** ![trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trebron)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 12:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102/3 "2006-07-12T12:47:16Z")
I had the same problem with accented characters, fortunately I could figure out the solution. Check the file lib/localization.rb and make a small correction. Search for the line containing file\_charset = hash[â??file\_charsetâ??] || â??asciiâ?? and change ascii to â??utf-8â??. I hope it helps, it worked for me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trebron)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102/4 "2006-07-12T17:32:05Z")
Stian H wrote: > > Search for the line containing > > > > file\_charset = hash[â??file\_charsetâ??] || â??asciiâ?? > > > > and change ascii to â??utf-8â??. > > > > I hope it helps, it worked for me. 🙂 > > Excellent, that worked perfectly thanks 😃 A better solution is to add a key “file\_charset: utf-8” to the language file. ---
**Author:** ![trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trebron)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102/5 "2006-07-12T13:14:52Z")
> Search for the line containing > > file\_charset = hash[â??file\_charsetâ??] || â??asciiâ?? > > and change ascii to â??utf-8â??. > > I hope it helps, it worked for me. 🙂 Excellent, that worked perfectly thanks 😃 ---
**Author:** ![trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@trebron](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/trebron)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 9:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/translating-rforum-all-the-quirks/59102/6 "2006-07-12T21:07:00Z")
> A better solution is to add a key “file\_charset: utf-8” to the language > file. Great, I’ve completed my translation, and included this. And it works great. If anyone is interested in the Norwegian Bokmal translation it’s available for grabs here: [http://konspirasjon.net/i18n/rforum\_120706\_nb.yaml](http://konspirasjon.net/i18n/rforum_120706_nb.yaml)