nodebb Custom translations

[pikshub]

how to? Is there a way?

[PitaJ]

@pikshub what do you mean by custom translations?

[pikshub]

@PitaJ I would like to translate the way I want. Independent from transifex

[PitaJ]

@pikshub so in the folder public/language there are all the translations. You can copy one, call it pikshub, then you should be able to edit all of the translations you want. You should then be able to restart NodeBB and select pikshub as the default language.

For now, that's how you have to do it. But in the future there may be a plugin to make the translation override easier.

[pikshub]

Thank you very much @PitaJ

[djensen47]

@PitaJ It's been a few years since this post. Is this still the way to override translations? I'd like to change a confirm message.

[PitaJ]

The best way is to create a plugin overriding the main translations. You just create a new json file in the plugin languages folder and it will be merged on top of the core translations. This might be helpful:

https://community.nodebb.org/post/44253

You can actually override plugin translations as well as long as your plugins are loaded in the correct order.

[PitaJ]

I know some forums maintain a single plugin for all of the customizations they need: translations, styles, templates, scripts, etc

[PitaJ]

I was at one point working on a plugin for customizing translations and templates, I've been meaning to pick it back up and finish it, as it's a useful feature.

[smartpunter]

I still didn't get it. Can someone write a short instruction?

So, we have in file /public/language/en-US/pages.json key "unread" with value "Unread Topics"
What should i do, so when user selects en-US language, she will see not "Unread Topics", but "Some other phrase" where 'pages.unread' placeholder is used?

Of course i do not want to change this string value directly in the language file, as it will be overwritten during future updates. But what should i do?