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   3 OpenEMR Internationalization Documentation
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   5 I.    Multi-Language Tool
   6 II.   Official OpenEMR Language Translations
   7 III.  Language Translations Setting
   8 IV.   Developer Instructions
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  10 I. Multi Language Tool.
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  12   This is the Language Administration page in OpenEMR. This is where you can
  13 customize languages and language definitions. You can add new languages,
  14 ,add new English Constants, and modify/add language definitions. (Please note
  15 you can also enter your translations into the official OpenEMR Language
  16 Translation GoogleDoc spreadsheet; see section II. for details)
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  18   The following is an explanation of the options in this tool:
  19     Add Language: You get a box to enter a new language.
  20     Add Constant: You get a box to add a new string to be used in the translation
  21                   function, this one should be used only if you know what you are
  22                   doing, mostly, if you added some custom programming with new
  23                   text output. The "constant" string can be literally what you
  24                   want to say or a shorter reference to it.
  25     Edit Definitions: English is used as the reference language, if you click
  26                       the English label you'll get a set of all constants and
  27                       the English definitions at the side. If no definition is
  28                       loaded yet for a given constant then a blank box is shown,
  29                       by entering a definition and clicking "Load Definition"
  30                       you save whatever changes you made. If you select other
  31                       language than English, you get a set of all constants,
  32                       the English definition at the side, and an input box
  33                       to enter/modify the definition in the selected language.
  34     Manage Translations: This tool allows you to re-synchronize your
  35                          local language modifications after importing
  36                          an official released set of OpenEMR translations.
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  39 II. Official OpenEMR Language Translations
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  41   The OpenEMR language official translation sets are built from a
  42 collaborative Google Doc. If you would like to add a language or help
  43 with a current language, please contact us.  You could then enter your
  44 translations into this spreadsheet, which will then become a permanent
  45 part of OpenEMR. This process has become very streamlined with a fast
  46 turnaround time, so we would suggest you enter data on this collaborative
  47 spreadsheet. Note that the translations sets are built daily; to download
  48 the most uptodate set of translations, visit our documentation at open-emr.org .
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  51 III. Language Translations Setting
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  53   These are configured in the Administration->Globals interface.
  54 Mainly, you can configure the default language and what is
  55 displayed in the login language selection menu (you
  56 can also disable this menu). There are also more advanced
  57 setting to turn off certain parts of the translation
  58 engine. Please see the section of Administration->Globals for more
  59 details.
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  62 IV. Developer Instructions
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  64 The translation is done by the xl() custom function, which can be found
  65 at openemr/library/translation.inc.php.
  66 Its semantics are very simple.
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  68 xl(string)
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  70 Which with examples means:
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  72 xl('translate this')
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  74 By default the function will return the translation.
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  76 First it uses the LANGUAGE constant defined to pick the translation.
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  78 Second it goes for the translation, if none is found, then the same string entered is used and returned as is.
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  80 Another example of use includes:
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  82 echo ("this and " . xl('translate this') . " that too");
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  84 Further details and rules on use can be found on the wiki here:
  85 http://open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/Development_Policies#Internationalization
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  87 There are also wrappers to the xl() function that are used infrequently in specific situations. Please
  88 refer to openemr/library/translation.inc.php for more details.
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