Edit Languages

A table lists all the installed languages along with additional information. The table consists of the following columns:

• Default - Allows to define the language used by default for example for guests or members who has not changed the language in their profile.
• Language Name - The name of the language
• Character Set - The character codification of the language installed.
• Users - The number of members using that particular language.
• Locale - The code that defines the language. Please see Wikipedia:Locale for details

Edit a Language

Settings for each language are edited by clicking on the Language Name. These include by clicking on the Language Name it is possible to change some settings of the language:

• Character Set
• Locale
• Dictionary
• Spelling
• Enable "Right to Left" Mode

Edit Language Entries

From the drop-down list, select "General Strings" (which covers most of the strings in SMF), or one of the other choices to see all of the language entries (also referred to as language strings). These contain words like "hello" and "Password incorrect", which are used throughout your forum. If you change these entries, and select the Save button at the bottom of the page, you can change how information is displayed on your forum. Where you find strange formatting ($1$s, or {USER_NAME}), keep the strange formatting, in order to continue to provide the correct information to you and your forums users.

Add Language

Here administrators can download directly from Simple Machines website, new languages. A box is presented where the English name of the language can be inserted to search it on Simple Machines website.

Once the results are presented in a table with details of the languages available based on the search terms. In the last column Install is a link that once selected will start the installation procedure.

In the first step all the language files are checked against the already installed files for that language and the page reports if the files are writable, the version number if the file already exists and in the last column Copy a checkbox allows to select which files copy to the local forum.

Settings

In this page is possible to set the Default Forum Language from a dropdown menu and define if the users are allowed to select in which language see the forum checking the Enable user-selectable language support checkbox.

Additional informations

How to add or change phrases used by the forum software

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