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| title | description | position | category | menuTitle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| i18n | Contribute to NocoDB's i18n translation | 2000 | Engineering | i18n |
NocoDB supports many foreign languages & we welcome community contributions via an easy to use google-spreadsheet. Your help in fixing i18n goes a long way supporting NocoDB. Please follow below simple procedure to request corrections to existing translation errors.
How to contribute ? (for community members)
1. How to change a string value ?
- Make a copy of Google spreadsheet
- Find your language code here
- Go to the column containing your language code. Make necessary changes. Origin text in ENGLISH can be found in
Column Bof master spreadsheet. - Create a new issue in Github request with a link to your spreadsheet from Step-1 (for us to verify & update master spreadsheet).
- NocoDB Maintainers will take changes and merge it.
- It's that simple!
2. How to add a new language ?
Your native language not in list, we will be glad to support with your help! Please follow below steps
- Make a copy of Google spreadsheet
- Find your language code here
- Replace cell $AB$1 (rightmost, containing text
en) with language code obtained above. - Google will generate first version translation in column AB. Review. Make changes as you find appropriate for various items listed. Origin text in ENGLISH can be found in
Column Bof master spreadsheet. - Create new issue request with a link to your spreadsheet from Step-1 (for us to verify & update master spreadsheet).
How to accept i18n contributions ? (for NocoDB maintainers)
This is exclusive to NocoDB maintainers only
1. Adding / Updating a string
- Open master Spreadsheet
- For the string/ text under consideration, look-up in existing sheet if it exists already
- [New string already exists] Consider re-using it; align string key if required
- [New string need to be inserted] Insert a new record into appropriate categories as defined below
- Download spreadsheet as .csv (File > Download > Comma-seperated values (.csv, current sheet)
- Use noco-i18n-from-cli to generate new language JSON file
- Copy respective i18n/*.json files to
nocodb/packages/nc-gui/lang
2. String Categories
- General: simple & common tokens (save, cancel, submit, open, close, home, and such)
- Objects: objects from NocoDB POV (project, table, field, column, view, page, and such)
- Title: screen headers (compact) (menu headers, modal headers)
- Lables: text box/ radio/ field headers (few words) (Labels over textbox, radio buttons, and such)
- Activity/ actions: work items (few words) (Create Project, Delete Table, Add Row, and such)
- Tooltip: additional information associated with work items (usually lengthy) (Additional information provided for activity)
- Placeholder: placeholders associated with various textboxes (Text placeholders)
- Msg
- Info: general/success category for everything
- Error: warnings & errors
- Toast: pop-up toast messages
Note: string name should be in camelCase. Use above list as priority order in case of ambiguity.