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One of the greatest features of Joomla! is that you can build a multilingual website. The Joomla! interface can be displayed in many languages. You can simply download the translation pack for the required language and install that to Joomla!. If you don’t have a translation pack for your desired language, you can translate it by editing language files directly or by using the translation manager component. The translation manager component allows you to visually translate your site’s interface into any language, right from the Joomla! administration area. After completing the translation, you can pack the translation and share it with others, so that they can install the translation in other Joomla! sites.
Besides translating the Joomla! interface, you can translate a site’s contents into your desired language. The GTranslate component allows you to translate your site’s content into 55 languages using Google’s translation service.
Joomla! can build a multilingual site. A site interface can be in multiple languages, using different locales. In this recipe, you will learn how to add an additional language to a Joomla! site.
Joomla! translations are available in major languages. First, decide which language you want to add to your site. For example, we want to add French to a Joomla! website. A French translation for Joomla! 1.5 is available to download at the Joomla! Extensions Directory, http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/languages/translations-for-joomla. Download this extension from http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/french/frs/, and install it from the Extensions | Install/Uninstall screen.
After installation, follow the steps as shown:
Adding a translation will only show the Joomla! interfaces in that language. The content of the site is not translated or displayed in the selected language. Also note that we still don’t have a mechanism to select our desired language. All of these things can be done using the Joom!Fish extension, which is discussed in the recipe Manually Translating Your Joomla! Site’s Content into Your Desired Language.
Joomla!’s translations are available in most major languages. However, you may like to change the translations and have your own translation in your desired language. In that case, Joomla! provides a mechanism to translate the Joomla! interface language. In this recipe, you will learn how to translate language files for your site from the administration backend.
Translation Manager is a popular extension that can help you translate the site’s language files right from the administration backend, without opening a text editor. Download this extension from http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla_1_5_tr1/frs/ and install it from the Extensions | Install/Uninstall screen.
After installation, follow the steps as shown:
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