Also, the name of your file should be of the format bbpress-de_DE.mo not simply de_DE.mo

Finally, you should download the file from http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ not from http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/
In order to download the file, click on the language you want, then scroll down to the bottom of the page, and hit Export.

I wish bbpress.org included all this in their documentation. The existing documentation has nothing to do with how bbPress work now...all documentation is really for the discontinued standalone version.

The only reference to language files I could find in documentation is for the standalone version. http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/ and says the files need to be placed in “my-languages”

I tried placing the .po and .mo files in bbp-langauges, languages and my-languages folders within the bbpress plugin directory. None of this worked.

Please help!

A newer update for bbpress-2.0 has been made, including some bad translation reported.

Regards, François.

A newer update for bbpress-2.0-rc-4 has been made.

Regards, François.

A new update of the translation has been made for bbpress-2.0-rc-3.

Regards, François.

You may find the French translation for bbpress-2.0-beta-3b in this article about installing bbPress in French. It will be updated as soon as possible with newer version.

Thanks for this great plugin, it works already quite nicely although it is beta.

Regards, François.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages#post-1133

Some are more complete than others (people made a half hearted attempt and gave up, ie. on the backend). But some languages are hard to find so it's handy to have a starting place and then you can fix them up with poedit.

Just edit your config file after uploading the files, and you should be all set!

If your language file is pt_BR.mo than you edit bb-config.php language to pt_BR

Just save and enjoy. :)

I was studying how WordPress internationalization works, and figured the same procedure out myself 5 seconds ago !!

Anyway, thank you 100 times !!

define( 'BB_LANG', '' );

with

define( 'BB_LANG', 'it_IT' );

in my case i've the lang file it_IT.mo and it_IT.po in the my-languages folder, so change it_IT with your own...

Thank you very much for your help.

Info in Romanian about the translation and how to install it can be found at: http://www.reflectionmedia.ro/2009/09/bbpress-in-limba-romana/

The actual translation files, both .po and .mo, can be found at: http://www.reflectionmedia.ro/download/bb102.zip

I hope that explains it. If I have the time some day, I'll try to submit a patch for it to be fixed in the next version.

How do I wrap topic_time() into _e() ? or... what is the correct way to translate time?

There are a few differences between my translation file and Tommie's - mainly, his file uses "etikett" and "ämne" where I use "tagg" and "tråd" (the corresponding english words are "tag" and "topic"/"thread"). There are a few other differences, too.

I've uploaded a diff file for the really curious: http://dropbox.jobjorn.se/tommievsplrk.diff

A small suggested change in the registration form: "Position" should be changed to "Plats".

I use bbPress 1.0.1. To make it possible for users to register with Swedish or other non-acii names I use Cyrillian Nickname http://bbpress.ru/downloads/plugins/

To prevent spam robots I also use Human Test available at http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/ I have translated the few phrases in the plugin. Write me a pm if you want it (I tried to make it available at my site but could not place a php-file there. Should it be zipped?)

Changes:
- Time format numbering fixed
- Wrongly entered php-variables fixed
- Tråd / Trådar / Tråden > Ämne / Detta ämne (or 'ämnet') / Ämnen
- Posta / Postad etc. > Skriv, Skrivet etc.
- Fräschhet > Färskhet
- Titel > Rubrik
- Tagg / Taggar > Etikett / Etiketter

...and some other stuff.

Download:
http://www.callofduty.se/0-gzgrejjer/bbPress_swedish_language_files_by_plrk_and_tommie_hansen.zip

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NOTE to others. You must change lines for the time specific translations. I've tried several of other translations that doesn't do it correct either.

Example; Year = bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php:385
You can use the linked langage .po-file or check the Bulgarian one out for further reference. It easiest to check the .po-file for line references with a text editor like EditPlus, TextMate or Notepad.

Edit: Hm.. when i try to edit the languagefile with Poedit and choose to save it i get 3 fatal errors;

23:04:20: F:\Skrivbordet\sv_SE.po:191: message catalog has plural form translations...
23:04:20: F:\Skrivbordet\sv_SE.po:2: ...but header entry lacks a "plural=EXPRESSION" attribute
23:04:20: F:\Skrivbordet\sv_SE.po:191: message catalog has plural form translations...
23:04:20: F:\Skrivbordet\sv_SE.po:2: ...but header entry lacks a "nplurals=INTEGER" attribute
23:04:20: F:\Skrivbordet\sv_SE.po:617: 'msgstr' is not a valid PHP format string, unlike 'msgid'. Reason: In the directive number 1, the character 'a' is not a valid conversion specifier.
23:04:20: msgfmt: found 3 fatal errors

Maybe it's related?

Update 2:
Tried a Bulgarian translation and it did translate time. It must be something with 1.0+ that isn't in 0.9 language wise.

It is still "sullat" but I now know how to change that. And did so. However I also have English words for months. I do not know how to change that.

My almost good enough forum is at http://www.32astolf.se/forum/

It works! Thanks!

However my time-relevant php aren't translated still. The strange thing is that those functions aren't touched at all. I'll have to dig again to see if there are any errors related to the __ -stuff. One would think the default theme wouldn't have any problem with the translations(?) :)

However, my time units are translated and the translation file definitely includes translation of those. You seem to have customized the Kakumei theme for your forum - are you sure that the months etc are wrapped in the translation function; __() or _e()?