2.0 Language Files on Transifex

February 06, 2026, 08:21:48 pm

This ended up being a bit of a chore. The upload is of-course easy, its standard push/pull commands. The chore was that we changed the way lanaguage files are named and where they are storred in 2.0

In 1.1 it was /themes/languages/admin.lang1.php ... admin.langx.php
In 2.0 it is /sources/ElkArte/Languages/Admin/lang1.php ... langx.php

Renaming is not a big deal, but we had new strings, new area/files, changed strings, removed strings. So I wrote a little best guess program that compared each area, like Admin 2.0 to 1.1.

If the string key existed in both and the values were they the same use it,
If the string was missing drop it
If the string was only different by capitalization/punctuation, use as is,
If it they were close based on a levenshtein_ratio use as is, otherwise drop it as untranslated.
If the translated string is just English strings, drop them.

So what is now in Transifex under ElkArte-2.0 is cleaner than what we have had before and the % translated is more accurate.

Also for fun, I wrote a small program that pulls untranslated strings from Transifex, runs them through an OpenAI model and stuffs them back into Transifex. You specify the area, like Admin, the language like German/de and the program does the rest. Of course those models are not free to run so I did it as an experiment ... and it works!

Still have to write the program that pulls the language files from Transifex and creates the packages.