Hmm. Okay, we need some people with translations on bbPress (alone, no WP/WPMU integration) to give us their results. This could just be the bbPress translation, or it may be due to the integration, but until we test it both ways, it’s hard to say. I don’t use a translation so I can’t really poke around that for you 
honnestly, i think at this time, there are not many people using wpmu+buddy+bb !
And most of them (as i read on several forums) encounters basic difficulties to simply translate the pot file of one or the other…
I translated each of them as a first step
Integrated them as second step
In third step, WPMU translation is ok and works 100%
buddypress is ok – 100%, too
but bbpress, hum, 30%
*LOL!* It’s always good to state, up-front, what you’ve done before 
That way people know and don’t give you useless answers like I did!
Have other buddyPress language translations had the same problem?
I expected such an answer, Ipstenu !
I already use the french translation, and as i said, it is not working correctly, not working at all. 
And i use it because i’m the author of the file you mentionned me.
The admin panel of bb is in french, the public side absolutely not. On the buddy forum, this appears to be a bbpress question, and here it is a buddy question.
Hum…
As end user, I only know that something is not working well between forum and buddy.
Show here by yourselve: http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/forum/
_dan_ – buddyPress already has a French language mod. Have you tried that? I’m not sure why the prefs would be overwritten, but I think it’s the integration, whcih means it may be a buddyPress forum question.
https://codex.buddypress.org/translations/french-france-fr_fr/
Hi !
I’m the admin of the french buddypress demo site. I encounter some difficulties with translating bbpress into french.
It seems as bbpress runs with WPMU+buddyPress, the translation is not working correctly. Probably due to cookie session mistake or something like this…
While .mo file is installed in /forum/my-languages directory, many lines are translated by the WPMU .mo file instead of bp’s one.
So, in my case, I need bp completely translated in french, not half showing in english.
Any idea of what is happening ? Thank
I guess I should have added the word CURRENTLY.
Not CURRENTLY possible to change via a plugin.
But you won’t see them do it via a plugin at any time anyway.
Translation hooks can already do it, it’s just a pain to do.
Right now there is only one person working on the bbPress core and I wouldn’t go distracting him with stuff like this when there is plenty of far more serious work to be done.
Uh, you are talking about text in the core?
Not possible to change via a plugin.
Only thing you could do is use the language translation filters and do an “english to english” translation of the phrases you want to change. Note that it adds some overhead but I guess everything in bbPress does.
There is one other scary method you could use and that would be to capture php’s output buffering and change it on the fly. That would be an extremely ugly workaround.
I’m working with bbPress in some languages with special characters, but I think that the way those are being handled when making for instance topic_slug isn’t the best way. Is it something which might be changes in the core, or which function should I “change” to add the nicer translation. The following three examples are handled the same way in both bbPress and WordPress.
Some examples from the Danish alphabet:
– æ/Æ > ae (not changed at all)
– ø/Ø > oe (not changed at all)
– å/Å > aa (changed to a at the moment)
Hi, I installed the alpha release 1.05, everything is working perfect. But the language file de.mo doesn’t work anymore. I there a known bug. I think especially the standard translation should work, right?
bb_lang is added to the config -file and /bb-includes/languages/de.mo is installed.
Thanks!
Thanks for the fix Sam.
What’s really scary is the code it replaced.
I can’t believe what I was seeing – did they really build the $table on EACH and EVERY call instead of making it static? That’s some serious non-performance thinking.
I mean just look at it, ugh:
function htmlspecialchars_decode( $str, $quote_style = ENT_COMPAT ) {
$table = array_flip( get_html_translation_table( HTML_SPECIALCHARS, $quote_style ) );
$table = array_merge( array( ''' => "'" ), $table, array( '&' => "&", '&' => "&" ) );
return strtr( $str, $table );
on EVERY call it builds $table?
Well it’s gone now so I guess that’s what counts.
I hope the error catching routine doesn’t slow things down too much.
Personally I am waiting for PHP 5.3 to finally “upgrade” from PHP 4
It won’t be worth it until then.
Hello,
I’ve created the Ukrainian translation for bbpress, it’s here:
http://myserver.com.ua/bbpress-ukrainian-localization.html
bbPress 1.0.4 Alpha Galician translation
bbPress 1.0.4 Alpha traducido ó Galego. Se queredes descargalo tedelo aqui
http://www.egalego.com/2008/12/28/bbpress-traducido-o-galego/
¡Bo Nadal!
I’m finishing my new forum (latest was made with SMF). I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 with the default theme (in blue and customized) and several plugins (a lot):
– Akismet
– Attachments
– Favourites notification
– Registration notification
– Temporal Ban
– bbcode buttons
– smileys buttons
– Related topics
– Signatures
– bbcode lite
– bbvideo
– post count plus
– support forum
– mass edit
– hidden forums
– active users
– bbpress karma
– terms of service
– human test
– report post
I’ve made the translation of bbPress 1.0 to spanish ( http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/ ) and the forum URL is …
htp://foro.ayudawordpress.com
Buen trabajo! (automatic translation; Good job!)
great thanks M.Abdel-Shakour , I am in need of this language pack
This is just a suggestion;
I noticed that there is a lot of stuff in functions.bb-template.php file that should be moved to templates. There are h2 tags in post_form function plus a lot of words that need translation in localization cases.
Besides, I can’t find information on building custom loops. Is there any literature available?
my-content
my-content/themes
my-content/plugins
my-content/languages?
Ehhhh. Languages (i.e. translations) should be added to trunk IMO.
I see. So the preferred solution is to route anyone who wishes to use SMTP with bbPress, and is not happy with the default PHP behaviour, to use the SMTP plugin. Fair enough.
There is another solution for Windows SMTP systems for those who control PHP; live with setting ‘sendmail_from’ server-wide in php.ini. This overrides the value passed to the mail() function ‘From:’ header argument for use with the SMTP ‘MAIL FROM:’ command (where the problem lies), but retains that value for use with the mail message body ‘From:’ header (where a complete textual name may be used).
BTW, the reason that the (SMTP) MTA on Windows rejects the email address is not due to the MTA, but due to PHP on Windows:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mail.php
A long-standing discussion is here:
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28038
The current value for the PHP mail() function ‘From:’ header (“User name” <uname@domain.com>”) is an RFC2822 compliant format suitable for parsing by a library (like PHP mail()) which *should* generate separate strings for SMTP (the ‘MAIL FROM:’ command, which must be RFC2821 compliant) and the message body (the ‘From:’ header field which can be RFC2822 compliant). RFC2821 format (user@domain.com or <user@domain.com>) differs from RFC2822 format. PHP mail() on Windows does not do this translation.
@sambauers
Thanks, I’ll be waiting for adding Arabic to the language repository.
Also i’ll work soon on making the final patches for rtl text support.
Except unicode for usernames, that will be fixed by allowing unicode display names in bbPress 1.0
@mshakour
I’ll contact you about adding this to the language repository.
Also, any changes that you need made to core to get full RTL working please add patches to Trac https://trac.bbpress.org/
You shouldn’t be forced to make a modified redistribution just for RTL text. I’m sure the changes required wouldn’t be overwhelming.
Hello bbPress Community Members,
This is the Arabic translation for bbPress, I’ve done it 5 months ago with 0.9.0.2
I was a little bit lazy about posting it here, dunno why
Till i checked out this post mintues ago , #thanks _ck_
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/check-out-this-very-nice-r-t-l-arabic-bbpress
All that i do know that alot of people love it in Arabic and already using the Arabic version of bbPress.
Also, I’ve made a complete RTL version with heavy modifications on template files and a completely new Admin Page Design (CSS Edit).
This is the last version of Arabic Translation for 0.9.0.3 with slight modifications.
Hope that the moderator add this translation officially with other bbPress translations.
Arabic Support Forum: (part of my blog itkallem.com)
http://bbpress.itkallem.com/
Project @ Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/bbpressar/
Arabic Language Files ar_AR:
http://bbpressar.googlecode.com/files/ar_AR-0.9.0.3.zip
bbPress 0.9.0.3 Arabic Pack only (language files + RTl modifications,..etc)
http://bbpressar.googlecode.com/files/bbpress-arabicpack-0.9.0.3.zip
bbPress 0.9.0.3 Arabic Version (ready to use complete bbPress in Arabic version)
http://bbpressar.googlecode.com/files/bbpress-0.9.0.3-ar.zip
[+] Annoying Problems:
– unicode support for usernames
Thanks.
M.Abdel-Shakour.
