Those who have been following our SVN commits have already started to ask, do they need to translate everything from the scratch. The answer is no.

Moving to Joomla language files had important advantages:

1) It was needed to make K1.6 to work in J1.6 (there are still some minor issues in installer)
2) Untranslated strings broke JavaScript; this does not happen with INI
3) Untranslated strings caused PHP warnings; this does not happen with INI
4) Old language file was filled with 800-1000 deprecated strings (read: not used)
5) Old language file did not work well with automation, which I plan to make translation task easier
6) Old language files cannot be installed by using Joomla installer

The list goes on..

I will soon commit script, which will:

* convert old language file to INI
* remove all deprecated entries from it
* split the file into two (admin, site)
* detect all missing translations
etc..

All the languages in this forum will be converted my our team soon, so you do not have to worry it by yourselves.

DO NOT TRY TO CONVERT LANGUAGES BY YOURSELF, THOSE FILES WILL MOST LIKELY CONTAIN ERRORS

Matias wrote:
All the languages in this forum will be converted my our team soon, so you do not have to worry it by yourselves.

Actually, we do. I (and most probably other translators, e.g. rinuccio sp) have made (significant) updates and changes to our language file which sit on my local disk. How will you know you're converting the latest files, and which ones? They're attached all over the forum, and the ones in SVN are months out of date...

I had translated the file until the day 30 January.
The strings added from 30 to today will be added automatically with your tool?

New translations will not get lost: we just need to organize it so that they will get our attention.

My tool takes existing translation (either php or ini) and compares fields to the new INI file. It will then compare all the fields removing all unused strings and adding new fields that are missing from the translation.

I have made some plans how to make this transition easy to everyone, but there are still some details which are open (we decided to do this about 24 hours ago).

Hi,

The French version is available and updated daily based on the svn

For the team : Just contact me to have the latest version.

Regards

Stéphane