FAQ 7.2

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[edit] I want to translate the messages to a new language or edit an existing language, where do I start?

Always use latest Git version of po file to translate. You can optionally translate online at our translation server where you can also get latest po files and merge them with your translations. For creating new translation simply use po/phpmyadmin.pot and generate po/LANG_CODE.po for your language (you can use msginit -i po/phpmyadmin.pot -l LANG_CODE --no-translator -o po/LANG_CODE.po to do this) or ask on mailing list to add the translation to the web interface. More details are available at Devel:Gettext for translators.

Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like é in the translations, since we define the right character set in the file. With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not display correctly. However there are some entities that need to be there, for quotes, non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than.

You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special characters, on the sourceforge.net translation tracker.

It would be a good idea to subscribe to the phpmyadmin-translators mailing list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.

Documentation is being translated using po4a and gettext (see documentation for existing translations). To start, checkout localized_docs/po from Git, or just go to the translation server and translate it online. If your language is missing, just contact Michal Čihař; he will add it. If you prefer to directly translate the po files, please put updated ones into our translation tracker.

See Category:MissingTranslator for list of translations which currently lack a maintainer.