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otherwise parsing them is not easy. also translation becomes redundant. We now introduce a json file to have translations for these blocks in a central place. see also https://github.com/yiisoft-contrib/yiiframework.com/issues/77#issuecomment-164208003
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Translation workflow
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Yii is translated in many languages in order to be useful for international applications and developers. Two main areas
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where contribution is very welcome are documentation and framework messages.
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Framework messages
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The framework has two types of messages: exceptions that are intended to developer and are never translated and messages
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that are actually visible to the end user such as validation errors.
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In order to start with message translation:
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1. Check `framework/messages/config.php` and make sure your language is listed in `languages`. If not,
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add your language there (remember to keep the list in alphabetical order). The format of language code
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should follow [IETF language tag spec](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IETF_language_tag), for example,
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`ru`, `zh-CN`.
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2. Go to `framework` and run `./yii message/extract --languages=<your_language>`.
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3. Translate messages in `framework/messages/your_language/yii.php`. Make sure file is saved using UTF-8 encoding.
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4. [Make a pull request](git-workflow.md).
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In order to keep your translation up to date you may run `./yii message/extract --languages=<your_language>` again. It will
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automatically re-extract messages keeping unchanged ones intact.
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In the translation file each array element represents the translation (value) of a message (key). If the value is empty,
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the message is considered as not translated. Messages that no longer need translation will have their translations
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enclosed between a pair of '@@' marks. Message string can be used with plural forms format. Check [i18n section
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of the guide](../guide/tutorial-i18n.md) for details.
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Documentation
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-------------
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Put documentation translations under `docs/<original>-<language>` where `<original>` is the original documentation name
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such as `guide` or `internals` and `<language>` is the language code of the language docs are translated to. For the
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Russian guide translation it is `docs/guide-ru`.
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After initial work is done you can get what's changed since last translation of the file using a special command from
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`build` directory:
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```
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php build translation "../docs/guide" "../docs/guide-ru" "Russian guide translation report" > report_guide_ru.html
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```
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If it will complain about composer, perform `composer install` in the source root dir.
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For information on the documentation syntax and style guide, see [documentation_style_guide.md](../documentation_style_guide.md).
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