How to use other language?

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Chinese and korean

Would you mind help translating? I've added you to the "translators" group - you can access url http://askbot.org/rosetta, pick the language and translate some phrases. From there you will also be able to download the translation file which will into an appropriate subdirectory under "askbot/locale". After the file is placed there, jump into the directory "askbot" and run command "python ../manage.py compilemessages".

Now i am translating to chinese in my computer.I see the url that you give,and then i will translate it on http://askbot.org/rosetta.

Awesome, thanks.

I had translated all phrases that i knew how to translate.There are also some phrases not translated.But i found only 68.00% completed in screen.And i found when i ran command "python ../manage.py compilemessages",there were some errors.

Error: This script should be run from the Django SVN tree or your project or app tree, or with the settings module specified.

I see, that command needs to be run from the "askbot" directory so that settings.py file is one level up. That way django will know to store the translations within the askbot app. Regarding the only 68% translation progress - take a look at the "fuzzy" messages. Those are the ones that the system for some reason considers suspicious. Just make sure that they are correct and uncheck the "fuzzy" box. You are really fast :).

Also - if in the language there is only one plural form - like where "vote" and "votes" is written the same way, please do not translate the plural - not necessary. Are there plural forms in Chinese and Korean? And if you have difficulties with English - try google translate or a similar tool.

In Chinese "vote" and "votes" are the same word.After i installed "askbot",the manage.py file was in the "setup_templates" directory ,so when i run the command "python ../manage.py compilemessages" from the "askbot" directory ,the command couldn't work ,and i ran the command from the "setup_templates" directory,the above error was found.

Take a look at this post - http://askbot.org/en/question/93/why-do-i-get-a-no-module-named-askbotdeployment?answer=96#96 it explains the expected directory structure. In the developer installation "askbot" directory will also the application code and in the deployed site most of the "setup_templates" contents is moved 2 levels up. The original location is just for the distribution. I will definitely write up better manuals this week.

Do you have a skype account?

My skype account is suyu8776

I copy files from directory askbot/setup_templates into "askbot" directory,and run the command,but there is error too,it mentions "msgfmt is not intenal or outer command".

If the command is work correctly in your computer,could you upload the mo file to http://askbot.org/rosetta.

Hi the .mo file can be downloaded from the github, but you still need to remove the fuzzy marks - otherwise those messages wont translate. About half of the chinese translated messages are "fuzzy".

I had executed "fuzzy" messages,there were only a little messages i didn't know the exact meaning and translate tool didn't give out the appropriate meaning.So i left them.Maybe someone else could translate them.

Thanks, I've pushed out your update - on git hub. There is one more thing to translate - file askbot/skins/default/media/js/i18n.js it is much smaller though. The best starting point is german translation, but also threr are some extra key messages in the englisj js locale. There may be some more missing js strings, but those should be minor. Thanks a lot for your efforts!

Ok,i will take some time to translate the js file,but now i have some questions.I have use poedit to translate po file to mo file and set the language code in setting.py, but i can not view the chinese words on page,why?