XF 2.0 Merge languages

[developr]

Hi there,

in XF2 it is only possible to overwrite an existing language.

Have sombody an idea how to merge a language with another one? Since a couple of weeks I build a language pack and in the final I would like to merge each version of language to a "master language". But if I use "overwrite" then complete language will be overwritten.

 

[developr]

I have a language file with 3114 phrases and another with 7139 phrase.

If I import the small one as new language and overwrite it with the big one then I have totally 7139 phrases instead 3114+7139 phrases.

In the big language file there are no phrases of the small file, so normally it must be merged?!

 

[Mike]

There isn't any built in way to do this directly. You may be able to fake it by importing one language as the parent and the other as the child.

 

[developr]

Yes, I did it actually with childs but its laborious to export and import a lot of files.

Now I exported the last child with "Get unmodified phrases" as well.

 

[developr]

But when I import another language for an add-on and select the active main language, only the phrases will be overwritten. What is the difference?

 

[Mike]

If you export a language and select a specific add-on, only phrases related to that add-on will be overwritten. If you don't select an add-on, the phrases from all add-ons will be included and the full contents of the language will be overwritten.

 

[developr]

Ah maybe this could be a work-around to export for the language for each addon language.

Another idea is to modify the xml?

 

[Mike]

If your languages each cover distinct add-ons (without overlap), that could resolve the issue. Though that seems unlikely with your explanation.

The only other approach is to manually change the data that is being imported.

 

[developr]

The only other approach is to manually change the data that is being imported.

What du you mean exactly? Now I have translated 4350 of 7139 phrases. But maybe I need this (or someone else) in the future.

 

[Mike]

That was really just referencing modifying the XML directly (such as bringing the contents of two files together). That isn't really something we'd recommend and it may have unexpected results.

 

[Nuno]

@Mike so, the correct procedure to add an add-on translation is to import as a child for the choose language?

Thanks

 

[Mike]

No. Importing a translation for a specific add-on only affects phrases for that add-on (in the language you're importing into).