Translations

How to translate Drupal Commons for russian?

Im developing site. Although by default it is English, it will be a very multilingual site with some posts in English, some in French and some in Haitian Creole. I have the google translate drop down menu installed no problem for non English speaking viewers, but the other function provided by google translate I cannot get to work.

Hello people,

I'm new to drupal... and I've got some problems with localization...

First issue: I wanted a german installation of drupal, so I installed drupal-7.12-DE.tar.gz. (I put the extracted folder in /usr/local/lib, and created a symlink to this folder in /var/www. Is that a right praxis?). As far as well. But the drupal site is not in german but in english. Ok, so I tried to find a german language package. The link sent me to "http://localize.drupal.org/" where I found a file like "drupal-7.11.de.po". But when I tried to import this file via "Configurations->Translate interface->Import" the server didn't react at all.
Then I installed the language-update-module (l10n_update-7.x-1.0-beta3.tar.gz) and tried to install the german-language-package via "Configurations->Languages->add language". Ok. After downloading 17% of the language-files the process freezed, so I now have a mishmash of english and german.
Back to "Configuration->Translate interface->Update" I'm told about two uninstalled translations available, drupal core and localization-module, but to update these available translations failed aswell by 17%.

My Questions:
Is there anything obvious that I do wrong, or is it a deeper mystery to localize drupal?
What do drupal actually do (try to do)? Where goes the language-files, and is "drupal-7.11.de.po" a language-file or a language-package?

Hello, i have a problem which i really don't know how to fix. Recently i have instaled internationalization module in my drupal but there are some problems i don't know how to fix. Everything is fine and fixable....but the menu. For my english page, it looks normal, but when i switch to turkish version i only see home and contact menu tabs out of 7 menu tabs in total. Can please someone tell me how to fix this?

I have installed the notify module in a drupal 6.22 installation and in the user profile I get a translation for the tab. This translation is not what I want so I want to change this. Now I have tried a lot (see below) but I was not able to change it.
What I have done so far, I have:
- translated the whole site to Dutch (succesfull)
- installed the automatic translations (succesfull)
- imported the .po file in dutch for notify and changed other fields (successfull).

Hi,
For testing purposes, I've install clean drupal6 and put few string in t() in order to translate. No idea why the string does not appear in Front-End after I've installed "Content translation" module.

I want to get something straight:
Is it possible to translate strings inside t() without using String Overrides module? I would like to enable that another person can translate all strings that programmers/designers have put in module/templates.

Best regards