My requirement: I want to add one more language say Spanish in footer section of language drop down list on Electronic UK storefront. Once we select the Spanish language our website content should change to Spanish Language.
I have read the hybris wiki related to Internationalization and Localization but I could not find any optimal solution.
Please help me in this to achieve the above functionality.
Open hmc or backoffice. Open your current base store, navigate to languages and add spanish to the list.
Notice, that there will be no data for the language, so your homepage might look very empty.
If you want to add localizations for the cms and product content, you have to add the language to all your catalog versions. Otherwise, your language wont show up in the cmscockpit/productcockpit.
Everything that appears on your homepage as words separated by dots (e.g. "search.placeholder") is not saved in the database. Those are spring messages. They are maintained in a file in your storefront. Find them in
/mystorefront/web/webroot/WEB-INF/messages/
by the names
base_XX.properties
theme-my-theme_XX.properties
site-my-site_XX.properties
where XX is the isocode of your language (in your case es). If the file does not exist, create it. You can use the english file (e.g. base_en.properties) as a template and change the values to spanish ones. Beware, there are a LOT!
There might be more pitfalls, but those are the ones, that came to my mind.
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I need to change Kentico date format to dd/MM/yyyy. I tried following the settings here
https://docs.xperience.io/k12sp/configuring-kentico/reference-web-config-application-keys#ReferenceWeb.configapplicationkeys-Userinterfaceculturesettings
but looks like I'm gonna need a CMS.resx pack. Where do I get this language pack for Australia (en-AU)?
The language packs are available for download on the Devnet portal. However, in case of EN-AU, if you do not require translation of the resource strings to the Australian English (I guess the EN-AU is pretty much the same as EN-US in this case), you can simply copy the CMS.resx file and rename it CMS.en-au.resx.
Or, you can use the CMSDefaultUICulture web.config key and set the default UI culture to EN-AU and then, the system will take the CMS.resx as the EN-AU culture's resource file. For more details please see the documentation on setting up multilingual UI.
So, I'm trying to understand how this E-Commerce solution works. I have installed the Community Edition and added the default shop. Everything is fine. I read in the Shopware documentation that you can add multiple languages to the web shop by creating additional shops and configuring them as Language Shops. All is fine, that worked, I now have two websites.
Problem is - even though the localisation information is set to Romanian - the website is all in German. Do I really need to purchase the language packs that are offered in the Shopware store? Or can I change the text manually? If so, how do you do that? Also, apparently the flag for the selected language is off... I have the Language Shop configured for RO, but it displays the shop as DE (Germany).
Also, can Shopware make a difference between selected languages when talking about product stock, prices and payment method? The idea is that depending on what country is selected, the product stock and price is changed. With this, the product code might get changed. Also, payment methods and accounts have to be changed as well. Can Shopware do that? If so, is there a tutorial or something regarding this? (I didn't really find something like this...)
Thanks for the help !
Crossposted at the Shopware Community Forum.
So many questions ... trying to sort this out:
As far as I know the backend is available in 2 languages only, German and Englisch.
Just changing the localisation will not change the language being used in the shop frontend. Changing the language is a complex thing to do, which require many aspects.
First of all, each subshop is assigned to a root category eg. 'German' or 'English' or 'Romanian' - this facilitates to show different stock in different languages. (Btw, do not delete the category Deutsch or German, it will break the system. If you don't need it, just leave it empty.)
Many of the predefined attributes and any custom defined attribute for articles can be translated.
Any other static text can be translated, as Shopware uses the Smarty template technology - very easy and straightforward to do.
Bottom line: No you do not need to buy the language packs, if you want to the translation yourself.
Prices can be set per customer group, subshops in turn are associated to customer groups, so this way you could show different prices in different regions/languages.
Am i correct in assuming that i need a nav webpart for each language with the correct corresponding culture code set?
I have on cms:CMSListMenu in my .Master page, and i'm going to be starting the french version of the site.
Your assumption is NOT correct. Kentico is made to use a single template and/or webpart for multiple languages. You do have the opportunity to use different templates per language but unless you need it for something very specific, it's not needed.
The webparts are smart enough to use the current language which has been selected/set on the website. There are some additional configuration options you can set like mixing the default culture with the current culture. What this means is if you are viewing the site in French and have a page in English but not French, it will display the English version and in place of the missing French version.
I'd suggest starting out with the Kentico localization documentation if you haven't already.
I can't agree with you assumption. You can specify culture for you control, so it will always use that culture, otherwise it should be using current culture.
I have a product list which store english description for each field.
How can i implement/architect multi-language feature to provide same product in french ?
Have a look at the variatons. It should help you plan your multilingual web sites.
It depends on your requirements, but a common way to do this is with language translation files ( the common extension is .po or .mo ) used by the GNU gettext project, and supported across multiple platforms. Essentially, what you store in the database is a key, and depending on the specific language you are displaying, you pull the correct value based on that key.
Using .po files also means you can use a language file editor like http://www.poedit.net/
There are a few implementations of gettext, for most platforms / languages.
Here is a reference for php:
http://php.net/manual/en/book.gettext.php
or if you're using the zend framework
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.translate.adapter.html
In general, just store the msgid, and use gettext to retreive the right value depending on the selected language.
An example:
- create a directory 'locale'
and sub directories for the 2 letter language code
locale/en
locale/fr
and create file for each page you wish to translate
locale/en/default.po
locale/fr/default.po
in the english file you create string definitions using the standard syntax
msgid "site-main-welcome"
msgstr "Hello! Welcome to our site"
in the french po file
msgid "site-main-welcome"
msgstr "Salut! bienvenue à notre website"
I've developed a site in english (admin & front end) but the site needs to be in a Dutch. Locale and i18n modules have been installed.
Dutch has been added to the list of languages and set as default in admin/settings/language.
I'm now wondering how I can translate strings like the date output? For ex, when I print out a date from a view, it still outputs the days and months in English.
In admin/settings/language/configure I've selected "path prefix only" but I don't get the language code in the url's and links. How is this achieved?
Thanks
You can translate month names, days and much more using Translation interface. Navigate to:
Administer -> Site Building -> Translate interface (admin/build/translate) -> Search (admin/build/translate/search)
and use the search form to locate the string you wish to translate.
Since you've already added Dutch to your site, you can download entire Dutch translation on http://localize.drupal.org. Site is currently in beta, so you will have to login using your Drupal.org credentials.
Use this link to export Dutch translation of Drupal. Just make sure you choose All in one file format so you can easily import it in your site using Translate interface -> Import
To get the language code in the URLs you will have to enable Multilingual support for each content type you need translated (admin/content/types) by opening edit and selecting desired option under Workflow settings -> Multilingual support.
After that make sure that you specify Dutch/English language while adding or editing nodes.