Basic Language Pack Question

[rwment]

What EXACTLY do the language packs do? I mean obviously I can figure out that it adds support for other languages. What I would like to know is, does convert the pricing, totals etc to tht particular currency? Does it translate everything back to english so I can read it? You know those stupid little questions that are only asked by people that seriously need more coffee.

[kittycat]

...did you find out about the language packs??
I would like to add German but I don´t know where to find the language packs.
Are they stored somewhere and I need to down and then upload them??
totally clueless....

[CrystalKoi]

The language pack adds translations for the site core structure and function. It does not translate things for you. It does not translate product information, once installed the cart will add another field for product descriptions in that language. Basically if you can't support the language you want the transition for, then you are looking for problems.

Language packs do not set the currency, you need to set that up for yourself, If you do a search for currency, you will get plenty of info on how to do that.

Think of it like this, when you fist installed zen cart it was in English, in its stock state. You will just get a translation of that stock state.

[kittycat]

Thank you for your reply!
I understand that it doesn´t translate things for me.
I´m a german girl working in the US and I just want a german version of my page for my german customers.
I went to the download section and downloaded the german language pack.

I didn´t want to install the entire Zen Cart since I already have it installed and did a lot of Html mods.
So I only installed the german files into my includes/languages file.
I got this WARNING in my admin: missing language files

The page looked ok only the buttons show as "?".
I did install the german buttons correct: includes/templates/MY_TEMPLATE/buttons/german
Any idea what´s wrong?
www.pinuppeepshop.com
THANK YOU!!

[kittycat]

Actually as I look at it there is a lot more wrong with my german page...
The Information sidebox shows strange capital letter text and the browser header text shows strange text too.
What am I missing?

[CrystalKoi]

There is a nice German cart from what I hear. But if you don't want to do that. You need a one for one of all the includes/languages/english and admin/includes/languages/english you should have all of the files that are in there in your German side of things. I think the Germans have a good support site too. I don't speak German, and I know their cart has some differences so I would check all that out.

"strange Capital letter text" = definitions that are being called up that are not defined in your German pack. You might be missing some define statements in your german.php file.

Hope that helps

[kittycat]

Thank you for your reply!
I tried now with spanish and the same problem :
No buttons.
Here´s what I do:
download language pack to my desctop
upload the folder /german to
public_html/includes/languages/
upload the file /german.php to
public_html/includes/languages/

I check my page - no buttons.
Then I downloaded german buttons from the Zen-Cart download page
I upload them to
includes/templates/<MY_TEMPLATE>/buttons/german

That´s it. Or is it?
Thank you for helping!

[CrystalKoi]

for buttons they should be here, or at least this is how I do it.

includes/templates/template_default/buttons/german/put the files here

[peanut77]

I have a stupid question....

I would like to set up a site in french, german & english have installed the 2 packs but only part of the site translates. I realise I have to create the define_mainpage.php pages etc

How do I make my product names & decriptions translate?

[Kim]

You have to enter the translated copy and names in your Admin while inputting the products.