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    How I translate the pf2.1 web to other language?

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    • Y
      yon
      last edited by

      ok. I have join. but the chinese Complete. how I download and upload my pf server?

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        Nachtfalke
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        Nice to see that. I will spent some time on the german language.
        But as yon said - how to implement this into pfsense ?

        Will there be a "language" selection on pfsense GUI sometimes in the future ?

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          bardelot
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          @Nachtfalke:
          The language selection already exists under "System->General Setup".

          @yon:
          The language files need to be copied into the correct folder in "/usr/local/share/locale" and the language has to be added in the "pfsense-utils.inc" file in the "get_locale_list()" function.

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            yon
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            where are download .po files?  ::)

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              When you are looking at the language, there is a "Review" tab that has a download link for the .po

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                yon
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                @bardelot:

                @yon:
                The language files need to be copied into the correct folder in "/usr/local/share/locale" and the language has to be added in the "pfsense-utils.inc" file in the "get_locale_list()" function.

                where are the pfsense-utils.inc file?

                copy to /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/ ? or /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES  ?

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                • jimpJ
                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                  last edited by

                  pfsense-utils.inc is in /etc/inc/

                  And look at

                  : ls -l /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/
                  total 1744
                  -rw-r–r--  1 root  wheel  591471 Jul  7 19:54 pfSense.mo
                  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1144626 Jul  7 19:54 pfSense.po

                  I'd guess that's where it goes... but I'm really not sure how that bit works.

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                    bardelot
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                    The .po files are compiled into binary .mo files using the 'msgfmt' tool.

                    However the problem is that the encoding is currently always set to be ISO8859-1 (latin1), hence the "pt_BR.ISO8859-1" folder.  ISO8859-1 is suitable for most "Western European" languages but not for Simplified Chinese. So the set_language() calls in the guiconfig.inc and system.php files (both in /usr/local/www) will have to be modified to take the encoding as its second argument (In case of Simplified Chinese probably GB18030 or UTF-8).

                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

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                      yon
                      last edited by

                      @jimp:

                      pfsense-utils.inc is in /etc/inc/

                      And look at

                      : ls -l /usr/local/share/locale/pt_BR.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/
                      total 1744
                      -rw-r–r--  1 root  wheel   591471 Jul  7 19:54 pfSense.mo
                      -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1144626 Jul  7 19:54 pfSense.po

                      I'd guess that's where it goes... but I'm really not sure how that bit works.

                      I have edit pfsense-utils.inc and upload .po file. but it not work.  where .mo file download ?

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                        bardelot
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                        @yon:

                        I have edit pfsense-utils.inc and upload .po file. but it not work.  where .mo file download ?

                        Copy the file as pfSense.po into /usr/local/share/locale/zh_CN.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES/ (the encoding is wrong so no idea if this even works at all) and then cd into the directory and run "msgfmt pfSense.po" which should create your .mo file.

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                          yon
                          last edited by

                          there are has no zh_CN.ISO8859-1 folder, just is gb2312.

                          I have po tool make .mo file and upload it. but it is still not work.

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                            usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc:88:set_language($g['language']);
                            usr/local/www/system.php:174:                   set_language($config['system']['language']);
                            
                            

                            Edit those lines to be:

                            usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc:88:set_language($g['language'], 'GB2312');
                            usr/local/www/system.php:174:                   set_language($config['system']['language'], 'GB2312');
                            

                            Then press Save on System > General with your language selected. See if that helps.

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                            • jimpJ
                              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                              last edited by

                              If that does work then we'll have to somehow account for the encoding when setting the language. Either by a separate encoding drop-down or perhaps a hash containing the available encodings for a given language.

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                                yon
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                                @bardelot:

                                The .po files are compiled into binary .mo files using the 'msgfmt' tool.

                                However the problem is that the encoding is currently always set to be ISO8859-1 (latin1), hence the "pt_BR.ISO8859-1" folder.  ISO8859-1 is suitable for most "Western European" languages but not for Simplified Chinese. So the set_language() calls in the guiconfig.inc and system.php files (both in /usr/local/www) will have to be modified to take the encoding as its second argument (In case of Simplified Chinese probably GB18030 or UTF-8).

                                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext
                                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1

                                yes, ISO8859-1 not support chinese.  but chinese support english.  maybe change to UTF-8 for world.

                                but how fix these files?

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                                  bardelot
                                  last edited by

                                  Just try Jim's suggestion:
                                  Copy the pfSense.po and pfSense.mo files into the 'zh_CN.GB2312/LC_MESSAGES' folder. And make sure the file names are correct (the S is upper case).

                                  Then change those two set_language function calls to be:
                                  set_language($g['language'], 'GB2312'); // in usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc
                                  set_language($config['system']['language'], 'GB2312'); // in usr/local/www/system.php

                                  Edit 1:
                                  Btw: Did you translate the correct file? The original file size (pfSense.pot) is 10x yours.

                                  Edit 2:
                                  Looking at the translation project website I think you have used the Terminology project (http://pootle.pfsense.org.br/zh_CN/). However there should be a pfSense project as is the case here (http://pootle.pfsense.org.br/pt_BR/). I don't know how you can add the correct project, maybe send an email to the maintainer (vcoque).

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                                    yon
                                    last edited by

                                    @bardelot:

                                    Just try Jim's suggestion:
                                    Copy the pfSense.po and pfSense.mo files into the 'zh_CN.GB2312/LC_MESSAGES' folder. And make sure the file names are correct (the S is upper case).

                                    Then change those two set_language function calls to be:
                                    set_language($g['language'], 'GB2312'); // in usr/local/www/guiconfig.inc
                                    set_language($config['system']['language'], 'GB2312'); // in usr/local/www/system.php

                                    Edit 1:
                                    Btw: Did you translate the correct file? The original file size (pfSense.pot) is 10x yours.

                                    Edit 2:
                                    Looking at the translation project website I think you have used the Terminology project (http://pootle.pfsense.org.br/zh_CN/). However there should be a pfSense project as is the case here (http://pootle.pfsense.org.br/pt_BR/). I don't know how you can add the correct project, maybe send an email to the maintainer (vcoque).

                                    yes, I am download the Terminology project, there has no other chinese file can downlaod.  I don't know which file need tranlater.

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