This page describes how to setup new language. And how to translate.

Currently there are twenty one translated languages.

• English (en_EN) - it's default system language and no translations file is needed.
• Lithuanian (lt_LT) - it's my native language :), so I make translations to this language.
• Danish - (da_DA) (Based on google translations)
• German - (de_DE) (Based on google translations)
• Spanish - (es_ES) (Based on google translations)
• French - (fr_FR) (Based on google translations)
• Indian - (hi_HI) (Based on google translations)
• Italian - (it_IT) (Based on google translations)
• Japan - (ja_JA) (Based on google translations)
• Norwegian - (no_NO) (Based on google translations)
• Portugal - (pt_PT) (Based on google translations)
• Russian - (ru_RU) (Based on google translations)
• Czech - (cs_CS) (Based on google translations)
• Croatia - (hr_HR) (Based on google translations)
• Icelandic - (is_IS) (Based on google translations)
• Finnish - (fi_FI) (Based on google translations)
• Romanian - (ro_RO) (Based on google translations)
• Swedish - (sv_SV) (Based on google translations)
• Belarusian - (be_BE) (Based on google translations)
• Ukrainian - (uk_UK) (Based on google translations)
• Turkish - (tr_TR) (Based on google translations)
• Polish - (pl_PL) (Based on google translations)

How translations works

Translations not only translates content but also implements full module url translations. None of image gallery I know has this feature. And this feature is really useful for multi-language site. Gallery fully satisfies requirements mentioned here. http://seo2.0.onreact.com/user-and-search-friendly-url-design-for-multi-language-websites-in-4-easy-steps except the last one, witch I think could make some mess if two languages modules translations are the same, and this can happen.

Making new translation

All languages shortnames is based on:

• http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm
• http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm
• http://www.seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/language
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-3
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

If we want to make, let say French translations, first we have to create a folder with approriate name in translations folder. This time it would look like 'fr_FR'. Then i suggest just copy translations.xml from Lithuanian translation folder.

Next thing we have to do is adjust siteccess settings. Unchanged default english language settings looks like:

array (
      'eng' => 
      array (
        'locale' => 'en_EN',
        'content_language' => 'en',
        'theme' => 
        array (
          0 => 'frontend',
          1 => 'defaulttheme',
        ),
 ),

And changed will look like.

array (
       'fre' => 
      array (
        'locale' => 'fr_FR',
        'content_language' => 'fr',
        'theme' => 
        array (
          0 => 'frontend',
          1 => 'defaulttheme',
        ),
      ),
 ),

Please notice that I also changed from 'eng' to 'fre'. In order to access french version you will have to type /fre/ at the end of address, or you can change 'default_site_access' value. Default language then will be french.

If you want to generate new language file. It can be done by executing this command.

php ./bin/php/generate_translation_file.php -l <language> -a `<api_key>`

<language> - target langugage ex. lt_LT

<api_key> - api can be optained from google. http://code.google.com/apis/console

Supported automate translate languages can be found here. http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/v2/using_rest.html#language-params