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Submitted by windhover on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 17:27.

Hi!

I would like to translate Mahara to Hungarian. Which is the first step?

Csaba Vágvölgyi (a moodler from Hungary)

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Submitted by nigel on Tue, 11/06/2007 - 20:15.

Hi,

The Mahara translation system is very similar to Moodle, so if you've done some Moodle translation work before you're in luck :)

Seems as the first two posts in the forums have been about translating Mahara to other languages, we might have to put something on the wiki. In the meantime, basically what you have to do is:

  • Copy the htdocs/lang/en.utf8 directory to htdocs/lang/hu.utf8/ (in your case - I think hungarian is .hu?)
  • Edit the langconfig.php file to suit your language - this file should be easy to understand. Make sure you translate your language name of course :)
  • Go into the admin control panel, under "Site Options", and change the language to your language
  • Start translating strings in your language pack
  • Mahara has many language directories around the place - one for each plugin. You have to find them all, copy to their new name and translate the strings inside them. A command for finding them all in linux is find . -type d -name en.utf8. I'll prepare something soon to make this easier.

Hopefully that should be enough to get you started :)

What do you mean by "similar to Moodle"?

Submitted by jdpark7 on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 14:22.

I wonder there is a menu for the translation of mahara as that for moodle.
Thanks in advance.

Jong-Dae Park

When I say similar, I mean

Submitted by nigel on Tue, 02/19/2008 - 19:47.

When I say similar, I mean the language files look similar to Moodle. E.g. they are full of lines that look like:

$string['something'] = 'Text';