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How to translate a Drupal 4,5 or 6 module?

1 The module have a POT file

The module have .po or .pot files in "/MODULENAME/po/" or "/MODULENAME/translations/".

1. Enable the locale module and add a language under "admin/settings/language/add", "Languages".
2. Download and install KBabel, Poedit or use a texteditor [1].
3. Open the file with the suffix .pot from "MODULNAME/translations/" in Drupal 6 or "MODULNAME/po/" in Drupal 4 or 5, translate and save it as "LANGUAGECODE.po" (LANGUAGECODE is your language code. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_codes).
4. Make your translation availabe (under the GPL license) for other users. For example, submit your files to the module project page by create a issue http://drupal.org/project/issues/MODULNAME or contact the maintainer of the module.

2 The module have no translations

The module have no .po or .pot files in "/MODULENAME/po/" or "/MODULENAME/translations/".

1. Download and install the Drupal module Translation Template Extractor (POTX).
2. Enable the locale module and add a language under "admin/settings/language/add", "Languages".
3. Create a .po file: Go to "admin/build/translate/extract", "Translate interface" and select the module under "Directory "sites/all/modules"", and select "Template language" and "Template file for LANGUAGENAME translations" and "Include translations".
4. Create a .pot file for other translators: Go to "admin/build/translate/extract", "Translate interface" and select the module under "Directory "sites/all/modules"", and select "Language independent template".
5. Download and install KBabel, Poedit or use a texteditor [1].
6. Open the file with the suffix .po from "MODULNAME/translations/" in Drupal 6 or "MODULNAME/po/" in Drupal 4 or 5, translate and save it as "LANGUAGECODE.po" (LANGUAGECODE is your language code. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_codes).
7. Make your translation availabe (under the GPL license) for other users. For example, submit your files to the module project page by create a issue http://drupal.org/project/issues/MODULNAME or contact the maintainer of the module.
8. Import the new .po file under "admin/build/translate/import", "Translate interface" in your language.

[1] Translate with a texteditor

Example in German. Write the german text in the msgstr line.


msgid "English text"
msgstr "Deutscher Text"