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Get yourself poEdit. Open the po file with it and when you save that file poEdit should automatically create a mo file, which you can then upload to your site into bp-languages. Make sure that it’s named exactly […]

Is that a blog post? If so, it’ll be in the single.php template.

And the BuddyPress.org theme is not available

Presumably you also have the wordpress turkish language files…..

I downloaded the buddypress 1.5 turkish translations from https://github.com/halk/BuddyPressTR (unfortunately they weren’t zipped so it was […]

According to http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/translations/ you need to create a /wp-content/languages/ directory (if it doesn’t already exist) and copy the .mo and .po files there.

It should not […]

Assume you’re on BP 1.5.1. It is in there. (bp-blogs.php line 381ish).

Do you mean you figured out your problem? What was it?

You probably should not be keeping the mo file inside of BP. Do what @wedeem says and put it in WP_LANG_DIR, which is usually wp-content/languages.

Also, you might be loading your textdomain too early. Try […]

If you can point to the specific place in BuddyPress where there are untranslatable strings, I’ll believe it’s a BP problem. I run a French translation locally and it works fine. I’m assuming that the same […]

It’s possible that the Turkish language pack was not yet upgraded for BP 1.5.x; some strings changed since 1.2.x. Contact the author of that language pack.

What parts of BuddyPress are still in English? It’s possible that those parts are created by plugins other than BuddyPress itself, and that those plugins are not shipped with translations into the languages you have tested.

your language translations should reside in /wp-content/languages/my-custom-language

Also in poedit are you saving the changes and exporting them to create the po and mo files?

Have a look at […]

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hi,
regarding the multi-language site, i am also building a site in Arabic and i also had the same problem of some of the fields not displaying in Arabic so fixed them by adding those in the po file and they […]

Using the qtranslate code have u checked the DB what is being inserted.
It may be the case that u are inserting successfully but only displaying incorrectly. This has happened to me several times.