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I want to translate the messages to a new language or upgrade an existing language, where do I start?

April 26, 2017existing Language Messages translate upgrade

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I want to translate the messages to a new language or upgrade an existing language, where do I start?

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Always use the current SVN version of your language file. For a new language, start from english-utf-8.inc.php. If you don’t know how to get the SVN version, please ask one of the developers. Please note that we try not to use HTML entities like é in the translations, since we define the right character set in the file. With HTML entities, the text on JavaScript messages would not display correctly. However there are some entities that need to be there, for quotes ,non-breakable spaces, ampersands, less than, greater than. You can then put your translations, as a zip file to avoid losing special characters, on the sourceforge.net translation tracker. It would be a good idea to subscribe to the phpmyadmin-translators mailing list, because this is where we ask for translations of new messages.