Quite some time ago I had a wish to start my work on Drupal interface translation to my mother tongue, i.e, Oriya (officially it’s declared now to be ‘Odiya’ ) . I had spent few days reading all available articles on “Drupal Translation” and reading through forums and comments.

Now, I have already started my work.

Here goes the foundation,

• I choose a Drupal-6 installation on my machine which have Internationalization module installed in it. I enabled the locale module in it.
• To extract the translation templates I used the potx module . It offers two  two ways of extracting the template file for each core module. Even you have the option to extract translation templates for your theme files too. But I think everybody prefers to translated the modules prior to themes. Isn’t it!! So here are the two possible ways,

1. Copy potx.inc and potx-cli.php to the directory you would like to generate translation templates for and run php potx-cli.php. The translation templates will get generated as separate files in the current directory.

2. Install the module on a Drupal site as you would with any other module. Once potx module is turned on, you can go to the “Extract strings” tab on the Locale administration interface, select the module or modules you want to have a translation template for, and submit the form. You will get one single template file generated.

All my posts related to this project will be tagged under ‘localization’ tag.

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