nocodb/packages/noco-docs/content/en/engineering/translation.md

title	description	position	category	menuTitle
i18n translation	Contribute to NocoDB's i18n translation	3400	Engineering	i18n translation

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 B of 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 B of master spreadsheet.
• Create new issue request with a link to your spreadsheet from Step-1 (for us to verify & update master spreadsheet).

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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.