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#129701

Hi.

I’m sure this has been asked and answered many times, but …

Is there a ‘quick start’ guide to installing languages anywhere?

Do I need to install Joom!Fish first?

I’d really like a real ‘Dummy’s Guide’ type thing as I’m really new to this!!

Thanks
Chris

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#253636

For Joomla itself:
Go to http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jtranslation/frs/ and find the language pack you need.
Download yourlanguageandjoomlaversion_admin.zip if you want to have your language in the admin part and yourlanguageandjoomlaversion_site.zip if you wanna have frontend language.Then you unzip the files and ftp them to your site.
admin.zip goes to /language
site.zip goes to /administrator/language

Then you have the option to choose language from the backend later on.
For use with Joomfish, i suggest you read about it over at their forum/site on how to use it.

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1. questbg

[VisiGod Friend VisiGodJoin date: January 2006Posts: 538Downloads:0Uploads:4 Thanks: 76 Thanked: 138 times in 18 posts]

#253638

Do you need a multi-language site or you just need it in a language different than English?
In the first case you will need Joom!Fish, while in the second, you will need a language pack only (which is needed in case 1 as well).
Language packs can be found at http://www.joomla-translations.org

Поздрави 😉

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1. questbg

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#253828

здравеи! 🙂

Thanks for the replies. I want the back end of the site to stay in English, but would like visitors to the site to be able to choose from a variety of languages.

So, I guess first thing is to install latest version of Joom!Fish and then start installing the language packs for the languages I require!!

Cool. I’ll give that a try today! 😎

Thanks again
Chris

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#253834

PS. Forgot, one more question please…

Does this ‘translation’ happen automatically with articles, or, do I have to actually translate every article into required languages in Admin?

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#253835

Manually, not automatically.

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#253836

Thanks VisiGod. Wow, that sounds like a lot of work!

I was hoping for six/seven languages available. This means every article I publish then would need manually translating into each language.
😮

I thought there would have been an ‘automatic’ translation option somewhere!!

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#253837

Здрасти 😉

There are automatic translations but … is it worth? These generate hardly readable text.

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#253844

I think its worth the job to translate all of the content manually instead of using a automatic translation for it.
It gives your site a more professional feeling by having it correct translated instead of some crappy non readable things.

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#253847

Menalto,
I agree with you

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#253875

Oh no … this looks I’m down the route of manual translations :rolleyes:

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#253879

Automated tools for me are useles on a site.

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#253881

Agreed. Just tried it via Google Translate and BabelFish, both were not good translations.

Plus, I only tried English to French … if that’s bad, the rest must be worse!

😉

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#253882

Hihihihi 😉

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#253887

<em>@questbg 59440 wrote:</em><blockquote>Agreed. Just tried it via Google Translate and BabelFish, both were not good translations.

Plus, I only tried English to French … if that’s bad, the rest must be worse!

;)</blockquote>

did you try this translation before or after your “beer”?

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