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