Translation and Internationalization

Locale support for the Webconfig utility is available. If you are interested in translating ClarkConnect to your language, please contact contribs@clarkconnect.com.

We use an online tool for most of the translation. However, you should become familiar with the standards and conventions used by the ClarkConnect software engine before starting with the online tool.

Directory structure

The locale files are located in three different directories. Each of these directories holds different types of information.

/var/webconfig/api/lang
Translation for the software API
/var/webconfig/htdocs/admin/lang
Translation for the web pages
/var/webconfig/htdocs/menus
Translation for the web page menus

Filename standard

Following standard locale conventions, locale files are appended with the two letter language code followed by an underscore followed by the internationally recognized country code (in caps). For example, a German locale file looks like <filename>.de_DE.

The Translators
Chinese	Ding Wei
Danish	Jan West
Dutch	Bjorn Euren
	Guus Ijzereef
	Markus Koblitz
	Paul van Voorst
French	Michel Roux
German	BluePanther
Greek	Panagiotis Drivilas
	Vasilis Charamidis
Hungarian	Karsai Gábor
Italian	Giovanni Bartoli
Norwegian	Jan Erik Amundsen
Polish	Peter Smalira
Portuguese	Nuno Rafael Gomes
Russian	Konstantin Barsukov
Slovenian	Matic 'MicKY' Gradišer
Spanish	Dan Jaramillo
Swedish	Christer Gerhardsson
	Joakim Forslund
	Peter Svahn
Turkish	Görkem Çetin
	Salih Giray

File contents standards

Since most of the system is written in PHP, the locale files contain simple PHP define statements. However, some non-PHP (namely, perl and shell scripts) do parse these PHP files. A sample locale for the Postfix mail server is shown below:

	Internationalization for Postfix Mail Server

define('POSTFIX_LANG_BOUNCED', 'Bounced');
define('POSTFIX_LANG_CATCHALL', 'Catch All User');
define('POSTFIX_LANG_DEFERRED', 'Deferred');
define('POSTFIX_LANG_DELIVERED', 'Delivered');
define('POSTFIX_LANG_DESTINATIONS', 'Destination Domains');
... snip ...

You will see two formats for the define statements:

CLASSNAME_LANG_TAG for the software API
WEB_LANG_TAG for the web page translations