Language support

Currently, the engine only supports French (default language) and English.

Translations are made with gettext. They are stored in app/Language/locales, with:

  • at the root:
  • lang.po: raw file containing the translations
  • generate_po.sh: script retrieving the labels to be translated in the php files, Smarty templates and in the menu (xml file) and creating the lang.po file
  • compile.sh: script creating the lang.mo file (compiled) from the translations present in lang.po, and copying this file into the following subfolder
  • en/LC_MESSAGES: folder corresponding to the language to be displayed, which contains the lang.mo file.

Set up translations

The server must be configured to support the language to be displayed. To do this:

  • edit the file /etc/locale.gen
  • uncomment the line en_GB.UTF-8
  • run these commands:
locale-gen
systemctl restart apache2

This operation only needs to be done once.

To create the translations:

  • run the script generate_po.sh to create the file lang.po. The old translations are kept.
  • edit the file lang.po with the program poedit
  • compile the file with the script compile.sh. The script will generate the file lang.mo, then copy it into the folder en/LC_MESSAGES