@xspringe – we’re glad you like the plugin. And remember, you can help make BP Album+ even better by contributing feature suggestions, translations, and code!
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@coffeeholic
Re: “….Ps. Let me know if you need this translated to Norwegian. i would be happy to help.”
Welcome to the translation team. We will contact you when the next “stable” is ready to release.
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An update from my installation:
I have waited for BP Albu to get on the “high five list†so I could update BudyPress and BP Album at the same time, finally when I saw that happened, I upgraded them both. What happened is that all of the images that had no existing comments had the commenting turned off, even though when you go to edit picture the form says the commenting is on. It is only after you save the form that you get the ability to comment on an image.
Also the quotes are being escaped in the titles (not sure about the descriptions) and you can’t save an image with a single or double quote as it returns an error.
I don’t know if these issues are known, I thought I’d better post them here.
On a side note, what is the best way to handle custom languages? I have made some changes to the default english translation just to rename some things e.g. pictures → images, etc. Now that I have upgraded my .po and .mo files are gone.
you can always go in and do a translation to shorten things (eg minutes == min) etc
my .po file does not contain the letters ‘æ’ ‘ø’ and ‘Ã¥’ which are the special danish letters. Those I have translated to for instance ‘æ’ etc.
I have not edited any php files. Only the .po – which is why I am very confused as to why it should cause me trouble.
The example picture which I link to above – the .po looks like this:
#: bp-themes/bp-default/groups/groups-loop.php:57
msgid “There were no groups found.”
msgstr “Der blev ikke fundet nogle grupper.”
#: bp-themes/bp-default/groups/index.php:17
#, php-format
msgid “All Groups (%s)”
msgstr “Alle Grupper (%s)”
Hmmm?
Do you use some special characters in your translation, some danish letters with ö or something ?
Sometimes you have to change them to unicode, specially if such words are used in php format.
I have a fresh install of the latest WPMU & BP. No other plugins.
After translating BP to Danish the following tabs show no content:
– All Members (NUMBER OF MEMBERS)
– My Friends (NUMBER OF FRIENDS)
– The tab for the alphabetical view etc.
– All Groups (NUMBER OF GROUPS)
– My Groups (NUMBER OF GROUPS)
Here is an example: http://annchristine.dk/3.jpg
When clicking the parent page, ‘Members’ for instance, it all shows up correctly. But if I start clicking the Tab ‘All Members (NUMBER OF MEMBERS)’ it shows “No members found.”
The English version works just fine allover.
I have tried to look through the translation file, but I cannot see where this problem starts.
Have any ideas? This is sooooo frustrating… 
Sorry I missed this. I’ll review that and see if I can contribute any meaningful new pointers to the codex .
I guess I should have started here:
https://buddypress.org/forums/tags/translation
OK, so I found buddypress.pot – can anyone explain how to work with .pot files? Can I just edit this and the changes will magically appear in my theme?
Is it possible to create a translation-like language file to help tweak BuddyPress language throughout the core?
In customizing BuddyPress, I keep hitting roadblocks related to language choices. In many places, it seems like it’s very difficult to change hard-coded language without registering a whole group of new functions and unregistering official BuddyPress ones.
The most recent problem is that I could not change the default “Search anything…” without creating a customized bp_dtheme_ajax_querystring() function and a customized bp_directory_forums_search_form() It was impossible to simply make a cosmetic change on the search form because BP interprets “Search anything…” as an actual search string unless both of those functions are kept in sync with hard-coded language.
The other problem I have now is customizing activity stream language, which apparently will require hand editing of multiple files distributed across the BuddyPress core. Each of these could require custom my_buddypress_functions() so I don’t lose my changes every time the core is updated.
There should be a way to make language changes without creating a my_buddypress_function() and unregistering “official” buddypress functions every time you want to make a small change. If nothing else I’m a little worried about overhead of creating a large bp-custom.php file or theme functions.php file.
The way some other community/forum packages solve this is to create a language file that you can customize according to your needs, either through an admin panel or by directly editing the language.php file. I’m wondering if this has ever been discussed. I see the “Translation” sticky is no longer sticky and I wonder if that thread contained a similar idea. Can anybody weigh in on translation and how this works with BP? Thank you!
Not really a bug. I experienced the same issue a while ago with french translation.
Let me explain:
when translating, all strings going through php need to use ascii, like & nbsp; for a space.
the same string going normal nedd only a invisible (tabed) space.
The email messages are the exception in this handle. They have not to translate special caracters. Translators have to write them usually, not with ascci caracters.
If you use poEdit, you can rewrite the email messages in your natural language or ask the author. His name is normaly in the header of the pot file. You can also find his name on the BP i18nn trac:
https://i18n.trac.buddypress.org/browser
Oh, and to escape in emails code, you have to use anti slash, not slash as given in your explanation.
Everything will be made configurable in upcoming releases, but for now the easiest way for you to change it would be to edit the plugin’s translation (.po) file.
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Hello pictures addict 
here’s the fr_FR translation for 0.1.7 of bp-album+
http://bp-fr.net/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/group-documents/24/1270141787-languages-fr_FR.zip
A little error on line 156 in bp-album-admin.php currently prevents a correct translation. Replace the word ‘buddypress’ by ‘bp-album’ in the line and it would be ok.
Salut !
@Mariusooms
This can be added, we will try to include it in next release (before that we’re waiting for some more feedback).
I guess best would be to check if user is coming from some outside URL, if so – to redirect him to preferred language, otherwise let him switch languages as usual.
@Sanny
Thanks for valuable feedback.
BP is not wrapping extra profile fields (title and description) in textdomain – you can’t get it translated (for now). We will try to add support for this – to register extra field’s titles and labels (descriptions), so it can be translated via WPML’s ‘string translation’.
Hi 3sixty
Yes I would need help for the translations as I speak french and my english is not always perfect.
So the prioty things to do are
-Better instructions & translation
-Make ajaxed functions work
-Finishing adapting it for WP3.0 (custom types) – I started this but it isn’t working perfectly yet
-Better layouts, yes.
I made a post here that you can complete : http://dev.benoitgreant.be/bbpress/topic/future-versions-things-to-do-in-priority
Can you list the items you need help with on Classifieds?
Here is what I can see you need:
-support for basic tags: bold, italic, hyperlink, image, etc
-better instructions and translation (e.g.) don’t ‘warn’ friends about new classifieds
-improved layout on main classifieds page
what else?
@Bowe
1: yes
2: Are you referring to subblogs? BPML since 1.0.0 version is only active on main blog.
3: That is one of features left for future development. Personally, I don’t like auto detecting of languages.
4: WPML has ‘string translation’ API. Theme and plugin strings can be registered there and translated (WPML can scan theme for strings and allows you to translate them directly via WP.
@Mariusooms (Hi Mariusooms!)
That is good point. So you’re suggesting that in BP user’s option should be ‘default language’ setting?
I haven’t thought about this, but I guess there is some workout needed if user actually needs some language switching. And I also think that this can’t be done without using cookies (no matter how much I would like to avoid it).
@Erich73 (Hi Erich!)
I hope you can reach site. (it was down for a short while when I was switching it to new WPMU+BP)
If you need a Japanese translation, I’m up for it. You’ve got a great plugin here.
Hello there is a german language pack .DO I just have to change the german translation if I want to have it in another language?
from english to my language its difficult for me.But I can speak german and that would be great
i just saw it now it’s doing the same on the forum! it was supposed to be a word with accent! not those characters
i’m no problem to see the charater ç or ó or ã on your site. are you sure to use a browser with utf8?
Hi everyone …
i’m running bp 1.2.2.1 on wordpress 2.9.2 everything works fine (almost) but my site is in portuguese!
being that i don’t want to wait for a bp translation i decided to update the theme i was running (the buddypress part) , by translating it direct from the php code of my child theme (don’t know any other way to do it)
my problem now is that when i insert accent in words such as café or words with ç or ó or ã and such, it shows all crazy on the front end!
for example- http://brasilcanadasite.ca/activity
if you go to the drop down menu (sorry it’s all in portuguese) and you’re using firefox you’ll see a few question marks and if it’s on explorer you’ll see squares!
I’ve googled it EVERYWHERE with no success, i’m not a total noob but this is killing me!
thanks all!
Alex
@epsi, @jacek606 – Thanks guys!
Put a copy of the translation files on your own website, and then post a link to it in this forum. That way you can update the files instead of having to ask me to post a new copy of it for you every time!
Thanks!
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