Posted by joachim on October 26, 2009 at 2:46pm
I reckon Ubercart needs a British English translation, if only so we stop using string overrides on every single UC site we build for UK clients to stop them talking about 'checks'.
However, I know almost nothing about translation, either of core or contrib, and I have no idea where to start.
Do I need to register on the localization server and create a translation project node on Drupal?
And anyway, will Drupal understand a language code of the form 'en-GB'?

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Agreed! Happy to help with
Agreed! Happy to help with the translation too... no idea the best way to get started, I'm not sure if the localis/zation stuff on d.o is far enough ahead yet but we could at least start digging around for .po files...
OK I have a .po file for
OK I have a .po file for ubercart 2.0 (6.x-2.0) from localize.d.o, do you have any ready made translations I can look at? Are you using string_override?
Have started updating the obvious but if you have any from real sites would be great to list specifics. There are over 3,000 translatable strings in UC!
I opened an issue here:
I opened an issue here: http://drupal.org/node/614816
The only ones I had were instances of 'check'.
I don't know how PO files work-- can we leave the majority of translations blank and allow the original strings to be used?
Okay, apparently the right
Okay, apparently the right place to work is through here: http://drupal.org/node/615652