Localization Update ------------------- Automatically download and update your translations by fetching them from http://localize.drupal.org or any other Localization server. The l10n update module helps to keep the translation of your drupal core and contributed modules up to date with the central Drupal translation repository at http://localize.drupal.org. Alternatively locally stored translation files can be used as translation source too. By choice updates are performed automatically or manually. Locally altered translations can either be respected or ignored. The l10n update module is developed for: * Distributions which include their own translations in .po files. * Site admins who want to update the translation with each new module revision. * Site builders who want an easy tool to download translations for a site. * Multi-sites that share one translation source. Project page: http://drupal.org/project/l10n_update Support queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/l10n_update Installation ------------ Download, unpack the module the usual way. Enable this module and the Locale module (core). You need at least one language other than English. On Administration > Configuration > Regional and language: Click "Add language" Pull-down menu: Choose your new language Then click "Add language" Drupal is now importing interface translations. This can take a few minutes. When it's finished, you'll get a confirmation with a summary of all translation files that have been pulled in. If required, enable the new language as default language. Home > Administration > Configuration > Regional and language: Select your new language as default Update interface translations ----------------------------- On Home > Administration > Configuration > Regional and language: Choose the "Translation updates" tab Change "Check for updates" to Daily or Weekly instead of the default "Never". Cron will from now on check for updated translations, and will report the update status on the status page (Home > Administration > Reports). To check the translation status and execute updates manually, go to Administration > Configuration > Regional and language > Translate inteface Here you see English and your new language. Choose the "Update" tab You see a list of all modules and their translation status. On the bottom of the page, you can manually update using "Update translations". Use Drush --------- You can also use drush to update your translations: drush l10n-update # Update translations. drush l10n-update-refresh # Refresh available information. drush l10n-update-status # Show translation status of available project Summary of administrative pages ------------------------------- Translations status overview can be found at Administration > Configuration > Regional and language > Languages > Translation updates Update configuration settings can be found at Administration > Configuration > Regional and language > Translate interface > Update Translating Drupal core, modules and themes ------------------------------------------- When Drupal core or contributed modules or themes get installed, Drupal core checks if .po translation files are present and updates the translations with the strings found in these files. After this, the localization update module checks the localization server for more recent translations, and updates the site translations if a more recent version was found. Note that the translations contained in the project packages may become obsolete in future releases. Changes to translations made locally using the site's build in translation interface (Administer > Site building > Translate interface > Search) and changes made using the localization client module are marked. Using the 'Update mode' setting 'Edited translations are kept...', locally edited strings will not be overwritten by translation updates. NOTE: Only manual changes made AFTER installing Localization Update module are preserved. To preserve manual changes made prior to installation of Localization Update module, use the option 'All existing translations are kept...'. po files, multi site and distributions -------------------------------------- Multi sites and other installations that share the file system can share downloaded translation files. The Localization Update module can save these translations to disk. Other installations can use these saved translations as their translation source. All installations that share the same translation files must be configured with the same 'Store downloaded files' file path e.g. 'sites/all/translations'. Set the 'Update source' of one installation to 'Local files and remote server' or 'Remote server only', all other installations are set to 'Local files only' or 'Local files and remote server'. Translation files are saved with the following file name syntax: -..po For example: masquerade-6.x-1.5.de.po tac_lite-7.x-1.0-beta1.nl.po Po files included in distributions should match this syntax too. Alternative sources of translation ---------------------------------- Each project i.e. modules, themes, etc. can define alternative translation servers to retrieve the translation updates from. Include the following definition in the projects .info file: l10n server = example.com l10n url = http://example.com/files/translations/l10n_server.xml The download path pattern is normally defined in the above defined xml file. You may override this path by adding a third definition in the .info file: l10n path = http://example.com/files/translations/%core/%project/%project-%release.%language.po API --- Using hook_l10n_servers the l10n update module can be extended to use other translation repositories. Which is usefull for organisations who maintain their own translation. Using hook_l10n_update_projects_alter modules can alter or specify the translation repositories on a per module basis. See l10n_update.api.php for more information. Maintainers ----------- Jose Reyero Gábor Hojtsy Erik Stielstra