Translations

I am trying to complete translating my site into Chinese. We have installed the drupal 6 Chinese translation file by untaring the .po files. The basic Chinese that is in this package shows up but the custom strings we translated I cannot get to work. We are using the following modules:

Block translation 6.x-1.0
Content type translation 6.x-1.0
Internationalization 6.x-1.0
Menu translation 6.x-1.0
Profile translation 6.x-1.0
Registration language 6.x-1.5
String translation 6.x-1.0
Synchronize translations 6.x-1.0
Taxonomy translation 6.x-1.0

Localization client 6.x-1.6
Translation helpers 6.x-1.x-dev
Locale 6.10

I thought the process for this would be like the following:

# Go to admin/build/translate/export and export each translation from Built-in interface to Taxonomy downloading to desktop
# Open files in poedit and translate each string then save
# Go to admin/build/translate/import and for each .po file choose the text group and file importing with "Existing strings are kept, only new strings are added"
# Then clear the cache to make sure all blocks such are updated with translated strings.

When I do this procedure I do not get updated strings.

I found a Japanese translated version of Durpal on this site. Can I take the .po file from that and drop it into my installation of drupal where the default is English? I added Japanese as a language for our site and we are attempting to start translating into Japanese but I noticed that the translation for the Drupal interface is really incomplete. So I went looking and found a module that is Drupal translated into Ja (ja-6.X1.2)....and got the idea to use the .po file from there. Is this an ok thing to do?

Thanks,

Becky

We are adding Japanese to our website with English as our default language. We want to style our Japanese front page with different graphics that have the text in the graphics in Japanese. So right now, I guess our set up is showing the Japanese front page as http://www.mysite.com/ja . My question is how would be template out a new page for the japanese home page? Can we have a template called front-page-japanese.tpl.php? OR, can you not have different page templates for different languages?

Thanks,

Becky

If I set another language, instead of English , as the 'default'.
Then the 'Language switcher' doesn't work. whatever language I click, it will always be the default language.

Why?

Hi!
I have a problem with my multi-lenguage site.

I activated the modules locale, content translation and i18n, and I activated 3 languages (English, French, Spanish default) with their respective translations libraries. po imported and everything seems to work because when I was in the bar of the browser address correct language changes.

For example:

I have i8n module installed with Dutch and Englisch. I just activated clean urls, wich works fine. When i started assigning custom paths i noticed the language switch did switch to the translated content but instead stays on de current language but does put a node/# instead of my clean url.

I'm starting to think i18n is nog compatible with clean urls.
Please give me a solutions, must be doing something wrong!

I already solved the problem!