German formal Language bug

[Peter Wesche]

Hi, first of all thanks for the usefull plugin. I try to use formal german (that means the use of “Sie” instead of “Du” (EN “You”) – but when i activate formal german in the wordpress settings all event organizer text falls back into english. i took a look into the event organizer DE Po Language file and recognized there is a formal german translation, but its not displaying. how can i fix that problem? thanks for any idea, greetings Peter

• This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by  Peter Wesche.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Peter,

I think this confusion might be due to WordPress.org’s translation service. Event Organiser ships with its own translations (see this page), but that does not include a formal German translation.

If you’ve downloaded a language pack from WordPress.org, that will over-ride the provided translations. However, the formal translation language pack is currently sitting at only 12%: https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/de/formal/wp-plugins/event-organiser

That could be why it appears not to be translated.

(The translation tool currently used by Event Organiser unfortunately doesn’t support distinguishing between formal and informal forms – but it shall be migrating tools soon.)

[Peter Wesche]

Hi Stephen,
thanks. unfortunately i’m not a developer – but i know how to handle php snippets
and can change template files – so – i got some more questions:
i just downloaded the “wp-plugins-event-organiser-stable-de.po” –
i’ll change it to my needs.
but how can i prevent overwriting my new translated mo/po file?
placing it within the folder /wp-content/languages/plugins/ –
it will get overwritten in the next time when event organizer is updated – right?
can i place it in the child theme folder with the same path?
Could you please advice?
Peter

[Stephen Harris]

The plug-in will not over-write any files outside of wp-content/plugins/event-organiser(-pro).

The plug-in automatically loads translations from plugins/event-organiser(-pro)/languages. However it will first look for wp-content/languages/event-organiser(-pro)-de_DE.mo.

I’m not certain what the naming convention / location for translations downloaded via WordPress.org, but when placed outside the plug-in directory it shouldn’t be touched on an update. You could always rename the downloaded file and at place it at wp-content/languages/event-organiser-pro-de_DE.mo.

[Peter Wesche]

thanks Stephen!

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