Soholaunch in other languages?

[Paul VH]

Hello group,

I'm from Belgium and I want to know if I can configurre Soholaunch into the Dutch language?
Mostly I'm thinking about the pre-populated websites with generic content in it.
Is it possible to configure this content or change the English generic content into an other language?

Thanks for helping me,

Paul VH

[Mike Morrison]

Hi Paul,

You can definitely add Dutch language support to Soholaunch.

See this page on our community-editable documentation website (wiki.soholaunch.com)...
http://wiki.soholaunch.com/index.php?title=Translating_Soholaunch

[lowlands]

Hi,

Except for about 150 lines for the shopping cart I have a Dutch translation ready. I read the wiki. Do I uderstand correctly that I'd have to send it in to be integrated?
Two questions about that:

1. How long is that going to take, because I need it sort of ..... RIGHT NOW:(
2. Did you ever hear of the term 'competitive edge'. Where is mine going to be? I've just spent a number of days that I can't really afford translating and am I correct in assuming that has either been a waste of time or I am going to have to sponsor all of my Dutch (and Flemish) competitors?:hmm:

Regards,

Theo

[Mike Morrison]

Hi Theo,

1. How long is that going to take, because I need it sort of ..... RIGHT NOW
Well, if you just upload it to the sohoadmin/language folder you can have it instantly. As for integrating the dutch option into the build, once you send me the file I can have it in as soon as the next wrap.

2. Did you ever hear of the term 'competitive edge'. Where is mine going to be? I've just spent a number of days that I can't really afford translating and am I correct in assuming that has either been a waste of time or I am going to have to sponsor all of my Dutch (and Flemish) competitors
My thought on this is to add a page to the feature tour on our main website talking about the different language options and displaying big links to the poeple who provided the translations. So if you give me dutch I'll take a step towards making sure every potential dutch user of Soholaunch sees your name and a link to your company first....would that work for you?

[Ruben]

Theo,

Im Dutch (just living in Norway), so if you need any help, PM me.

Ruben

[lowlands]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your reply. Here's mine:

Well, if you just upload it to the sohoadmin/language folder you can have it instantly. As for integrating the dutch option into the build, once you send me the file I can have it in as soon as the next wrap.

Hmmm, don't quite understand. I uploaded a folder to the language folder called 'dutch.php' but it does not show on the pull down menu in global settings. I guess there is something else I should do first ...?

My thought on this is to add a page to the feature tour on our main website talking about the different language options and displaying big links to the poeple who provided the translations. So if you give me dutch I'll take a step towards making sure every potential dutch user of Soholaunch sees your name and a link to your company first....would that work for you?

Your proposal sounds ok to me however ... At this point in time I am still very much worried about loosing my copetitive advantage for the project I am working on. Soho is one of the very few solutions to do the job and as soon as the comptetition is getting wind of what I am doing and how I do it I run the risk of being pushed out of the market. On the other hand any company with some funds can easily have a translation made.

So here is my proposal to you.
I still need to get the language file up and running and I need to evaluate the result for a bit and make the necessary adjustments. So if you can help me get it installed I can start doing that.
I still have to work on the shopping cart part but I can't really afford to do that now. I am working day and night to get my own show on the road. I have a few major hickups that I can't solve on my own (I don't really speak PHP and MySql). If you could take another look at my question 'Members Update their profile, to be seen by other members' in the 'How do I' Questions and provide me with a solution, it would be a tremendous help to push things ahead.
As soon as I have my site up and running I'll do the final touch and submit the file to you.

Sound ok?

BTW I just read that DemoDemo is working on a Dutch video series so that would be a great combination. I wrote to them asking to keep me informed and weather there was anything I could do to help things along.

Regards,

Theo

[Mike Morrison]

Hi Theo,

My fault on that not-detecting-your-language-file thing....Looks like we're manually checking for specific languages instead of just reading whatever's in there (less than ideal, but an easy fix). Log-in via FTP and download this file Open this file...
public_html/sohoadmin/program/webmaster/global_settings.php

The line your looking for should be around line #314-324

$THIS_DISPLAY .= " <select name=\"df_lang\" id=\"df_lang\" style=\"width: 150px;\" class=\"text\">\n";
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Chinese");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("English");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("French");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Italian");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Japanese");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Korean");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Norwegian");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Russian");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Spanish");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Vietnamese");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= " </SELECT>\n";


Just have to add dutch to that list. I've added it in the build so it'll be there for the next release, but you can do it yourself to start testing now instead of waiting on v4.9 r53 or whatever to come out....


$THIS_DISPLAY .= " <select name=\"df_lang\" id=\"df_lang\" style=\"width: 150px;\" class=\"text\">\n";
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Chinese");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Dutch");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("English");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("French");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Italian");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Japanese");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Korean");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Norwegian");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Russian");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Spanish");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= langchk("Vietnamese");
$THIS_DISPLAY .= " </SELECT>\n";


Also: Please send me a private message here on the forums with the email address you used to register on our Soholaunch Addons website (http://addons.soholaunch.com) and I'll make you the official dutch translator so you can access special translation tools. :cool:

[bentware]

Hello,

I am translating some items into dutch (the forms that a visitor of the website sees). I find that very easy to do. However I see several lines with $lang["Email Address"]. That is very confusing because I translated only the first and didn't see a change :).
I also want to change the interpunction. You place an ! automatically after Thank You in pgm-form_sumbit.php but I think that has to be part of the translation (I want a dot there).
Also the ** have to be part of the translation.

Regards,
Erik Bent