Translating Kunena

From Kunena

Creating a Kunena translation

Review the available translations at the kunena.com web site, currently

http://www.kunena.com/forum/107-translations

If no translation exists, download the translation toolkit

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/kunena/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Ftrunk%2Ftools%2Ftranslators%2F

If you plan to redistribute your translation, review the terms of the license. To use the core kunena code for your translation for redistribution, you must adhere to the terms of the license.

Perform the actual translation.

• 1. Download the Kunena distribution, and unzip it. Find:
     administrator/components/com_kunena/language
  2. Copy the file kunena.english.php to kunena.yourlanguage.php
  3. Edit the file kunena.yourlanguage.php and replace the English text with text in your language.
  4. In the Kunena folder, find: /components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images
  5. Copy the english folder and rename the copy your language. Alternately, copy the blank_images folder from the translation toolkit
  6. Using a graphics editor, edit each image in the icons folder,replacing or inserting text as needed

Create a zip file containig your translation, organized as follows

• Name the file kunena_version_language_translation.zip. For example, kunena_1.08_english_translation.zip
• Create the following files and include appropriate content:
  • README.txt
  • LICENSE.txt
  • Create the following folder structure for your files:

administrator/components/com_kunena/language Place kunena.yourlanguage.php here

components/com_kunena/template/default_ex/images Place the yourlanguage folder here, 
containing at minumum, the icons folder