Multilingual interfaces

[erick_paper]

Does Cpanel have multi lingual skins to display in non-English languages? Thanks.

 

[erick_paper]

Any information about this? Thanks.

 

[rvskin]

Search the forum you will find the answer.

 

[erick_paper]

Thanks but I did check before posting. Most messages I found are advertisements by some CpanelAPP.

But I am not looking for external skins that I have to pay for. I am interested in core functionality in Cpanel. I expect a system like Cpanel to have it built-in by now, or am I wrong?

I saw this on the WHM help -

NOTE: You will need to do some translating in this area if you do not have already translated language files to use. (
from)

"You do not already have translated language files to use" suggests that there should be a file somewhere? I am not sure where to look.

Thanks

 

[marius]

check /usr/local/cpanel/lang
make a copy of english
translate everything is after =

 

[SubZero]

What will happen if the new to-be-translated lines are added to the WHM? How do I update our translations?

 

[erick_paper]

My question exactly. Let's say I copied the English file into a NEWLANG folder, and WHM recognizes that NEWLANG in its interface.

How do I now associate a domain with this NEWLANG? Will I have to create a new skin and associate that skin with the domain? Surely seems like a painful process.

On a related note, hasn't someone translated Cpanel interface into Japanese, Russian, Italian, Chinese etc? Any freeware I could download?

 

[marius]

What will happen if the new to-be-translated lines are added to the WHM? How do I update our translations?

Each time cpanel adds new lines you will be able to find it at the very bottom of the english language file.

Simply just add the same lines in your NEWLANGUAGE file.

 

[marius]

My question exactly. Let's say I copied the English file into a NEWLANG folder, and WHM recognizes that NEWLANG in its interface.

How do I now associate a domain with this NEWLANG? Will I have to create a new skin and associate that skin with the domain? Surely seems like a painful process.

On a related note, hasn't someone translated Cpanel interface into Japanese, Russian, Italian, Chinese etc? Any freeware I could download?

You don't have to associate a domain withe a newlanguage file. In cpanel interface there is an option "change language". Your client will be able to change the language as he see fit.

But, if you want to specify the language file for a domain, in WHM go to modify account, select the account and then select the language.

 

[erick_paper]

Thanks marius, that's great!

Now does anyone have translated versions in Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian? Thanks very much in advance.

 

[FlyingDude]

I do have traditional and simplified Chinese Lang file translated. Possible need some polish if I have the time. Also, Japanese and Korean lang file is on the way.

Here's my problem. For each account created that is using the translated lang file, it will all become some messed up characters. What I found is, I saved the file into UTF-8 encoding, and the cPanel is using ISO. Is there a way to make this work? Thanks much for all the help I could get.

I am attaching the Traditional and Simplified files(Saved in UTF-8 Format) for everyone to mess with. And these attached file are free for all with two little requests:
1. If you ever figure out how to make this work, please do let me know. My email address: [email protected]
2. Pease retain the last 2 addition comment lines if that does not trouble you. The reason? I wanna be known too =P

 

[FlyingDude]

Anyone found a solution about the encoding problem yet? If so, please let me know about it. Thanks much!!

 

[andyzhu]

I have gotten this done by edit the stdheader.html under directory /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x (if you use other theme, you should go to edit the same file under the theme directory).
replace the meta line:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
with this
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
,
so your browser will automatically pickup the charset UTF-8

I have no idea if there is side effect for other language. so far I have seen any thing wrong with chinese yet.


by the way, if anyone knows how to get horde into chinese, please let me know.


-Andy

 

[Arturas-M]

Hello,

I have the some problem. Change encoding you can by entering:

perl -pi -e 's/charset\=iso\-8859\-1/charset\=utf\-8/g;' /bin/ls /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/*/stdheader.html
perl -pi -e 's/charset\=iso\-8859\-1/charset\=utf\-8/g;' /bin/ls /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/*/files/*.html
perl -pi -e 's/charset\=iso\-8859\-1/charset\=utf\-8/g;' /bin/ls /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/*/*.html

Unfortunately, after some cPanel updates, you must repeat this job.

 

[brendanrtg]

We created our own version of the simplified chinese language file and is in the process of creating files for japanese and other languages.

However, the fonts seems to be too small and we are working on it.

Feel free to comment and try out our version with the following demo account:

/http://64.88.157.20:2082
User: language
Pass: demo123

If there is anything you would like to comment or suggest, please post a reply in this thread.

Thank you.