Title: Localization: Help Needed! Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Localization: Help Needed! * [otsukare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otsukare/) * (@otsukare) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/) * Hi, this is Otsukare from Japan. (Re-posted from: [http://wordpress.org/support/6/1879](http://wordpress.org/support/6/1879)) For people like me who are using self-localized WP, there’s a lot to do whenever new version is released: modifying each file to fit the intended language and mail() function, etc. To solve this, I made this multilingual edition hack. The advantages of this are: 1. Non-English user can easily modify WP’s language by just updating a language file (e.g. lang_ja.php). I need your help in: 1. Please download & test it! [http://wordpress.xwd.jp/files/](http://wordpress.xwd.jp/files/) 2. Reporting bugs, and/or fixing them if you can. 3. Translating language files( e.g. lang_de.php, lang_fr.php) into your language (only Japanese version is available for now). All language files other than lang_ja.php are dummies. 4. Give me feedback- good or bad. Thanks! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 101 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/3/?output_format=md)… [5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/5/?output_format=md) [6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/6/?output_format=md) [7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/7/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/2/?output_format=md) * [jules](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules/) * (@jules) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31868) * This is exactly what i needed! – Many, many thanks Otsukare! * [Naoko Takano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nao/) * (@nao) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31874) * Hi jules, Are you interested in helping Otsukare translate? I am also a Japanese WP user and kind of helping him get this localization thing going. I think it would be great if you could share your translated language file with others!!( unless you are using the Japanese file Otsukare made). * Anonymous * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31883) * I love the idea, I would be glad to join for the French version. * [Yuu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuu/) * (@yuu) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31884) * Sorry, forgot to log. So, I am joining ! * [TigerDE2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigerde2/) * (@tigerde2) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31905) * This looks really nice. But what happens if wp is updated b/c let’s say a bug was found? Christian * Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/) * (@matt) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31906) * Well the localization code should be rolled into the main release sometime. ( Soonish.) * Anonymous * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31908) * Please consider adding a Right-to-Left option to the localization code for Hebrew& Arabic users. * [Yuu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yuu/) * (@yuu) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31932) * Thanks allusion, I was hoping such words from you. Any other thing I would like to see is a status page with all the on going translations, in order someone doesn’t translate from scratch if someone else’s already working on a given language. * [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason/) * (@jason) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31933) * I already started on a German localization, so I’ll just roll it into this project. 🙂 * Anonymous * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31934) * Why don’t you use the wiki on wordpress.org to translate this file? It might prevent parallel (and repetitive) work. * Thread Starter [otsukare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otsukare/) * (@otsukare) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31937) * Thanks everyone for your comments! Yuu: I really appreciate your help. Could you cut & paste the translated file here whenever you are finished? I will include it as lang_fr.php file into my language folder. TigerDE2: As to bugs… I only modified parts that have to do with displaying language (i.e. message/menu/etc…). That is, all I (or whoever fixing the bug) have do is to check the relevant code in the original file. I can say there’s a 99% chance that you only have to do what you usually would on the original release version. allusion: I really hope you consider incorporating this into future development/release version after we get a few more language files lined up. For people like me who use multi-byte language, it’s quite a work to solve single/multi-byte compatibility issues whenever new version is released… Anonymous: If you simply write Right-to-Left text on the language file, it should be displayed as is. You might also be able to do the same by adding the following class in wp-layout.css. `p .RightToLeft{ direction: rtl;}` Let me know if you could help translating too! * [Naoko Takano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nao/) * (@nao) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31938) * Hi, I think Otsukare and other people involved are sleeping at this moment ( It’s past midnight in Japan, I am in the US), but he will be posing a reply soon. Good point, Yuu! And Anonymous, It’s certainly a good idea to use wiki. Soon we can get it started, so it will be more efficient not to start translating just yet. Thanks all. * Thread Starter [otsukare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otsukare/) * (@otsukare) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31942) * Yuu: I really appreciate your help. I would definitely include it! Jason: Thanks for your help too! We can work together to make it a great project. Hurrah for Deutsh! (BANZAI) Anonymous: I agree with your comment on the use of Wiki. I want to use whatever everyone is the easiest to work with. Could someone give it a good project name? * [Jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason/) * (@jason) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31944) * Otsukare: Looking at the files, it seems there are a few things you are skipping/ not translating. Is there a reason for this, or have you just missed some things? * [TigerDE2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigerde2/) * (@tigerde2) * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/#post-31956) * Guess we’ll have to start translating the readme then… BTW: The German FAQ is near compleation (90%). Somebody should revise it… (because I love making all sorts of mistakes… ;o) ) Christian P.S.: [@jason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason/): I think the Wiki idea is a good one… Would you mind starting a page lang_de or something? (If you haven’t already…) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 101 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/3/?output_format=md)… [5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/5/?output_format=md) [6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/6/?output_format=md) [7](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/7/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Localization: Help Needed!’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 101 replies * 27 participants * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/) * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/localization-help-needed/page/7/#post-32863) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics