ഡ്ര്യൂപൽ ഭാഷാന്തരീകരണം അഥവാ Translating Drupal

ആവശ്യമാണ് പഠനത്തിന്റെ മാതാവ് എന്ന് കൃത്യമായി വല്ലവരും പറഞ്ഞിട്ടുണ്ടോ എന്നറിയില്ല. എന്നാൽ എന്റെ
അനുഭവം അതാണ്.

അങ്ങനെ ഡ്ര്യൂപൽ മലയാളത്തിലെക്കാക്കേണ്ടതിന്റെ ഒരു ആവശ്യം വന്നു. അപ്പോൾ എങ്ങനെ എന്തുകൊണ്ട്‌ എന്നെല്ലാം നെറ്റിൽ തപ്പി. പലതും പഠിച്ചു. അത് പറയാം എന്ന് വിചാരിച്ചു.

I used an opensource program called poEdit to translate Drupal
into our language Malayalam. Good that Drupal uses custom markup for identifying text to translate.

First, I downloaded the Drupal 6.x .pot files from here. It contains required .pot files in different folders. I took one for example (includes.pot) and renamed to .po (includes.po). After that opened it using poEdit program and added required informations in File>Preferences of poEdit menu. Then under Catelog>Settings menu Project info tab, gave the details. At the end of this tab there is an option called "Plural Forms:". Gave there the values "nplurals=1; plural=0;" instead of default "nplural=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION". This applies to all Asian languages as per this page. In this same tab used UTF-8 as encoding for both Charset and source code charset options.

After that saved the options and using mozhi keyboard typed the corresponding malayalam content of each strings on space provided at the bottom of the page (second column). It is good to change the font to Anjaliold lipi or Rachana in "Use custom font for translations list" and "Use custom font for text fields".

This options are available in File>Preferences>Editor tab of poEdit program.

poEdit program gives the status of translation at the bottom of the screen. Save the .po file and import into Drupal for viewing your Drupal site in Malayalam.

To know more about .po files, please visit

Links:
One
Two
Three
poEdit tutorial


A incomplete translation zipped file can be downloaded from here.

UPDATE:-
The translation is updated. Please download drupal-pot_23_10_2008.zip file from my above named goole site. You may have to import each .po files into your drupal installation.