[SOLVED] Language plugin and language files within cb plug in

Hi
One question that comes to language plugin and the language files in respectively cb plug in.
In the downloaded default language plugin (en-gb) there are the language files for cb in language.php and in admin.php in addition there is a folder (cbplugin) with language files for all the cb plugin.
But in each and every plugin, there are also language files. Is this really necessary? Why are not all the language files in one place eg in the folder cbplugin or in the language files in the respective cbplugin? When you are about to translate the plugin you now must translate the files in both places.
Is there a particular reason for this?

You don't translate both locations. The language files included with a plugin are their defaults. Defaults should never be translated. They're there as a resource to construct a language plugin. You only need to translate them in your actual language plugin. See the below link and the CB 2.0 Primer Book for translation usage information.

www.joomlapolis.com/cb-solutions/languages

Hi
Thats exactly what I did.
Downloaded the language plugin from the localization page.
Translated everything inside this, renaming it to my language and installed it.

But after the translation there was a lot of strings that were not translated.
So I had to find the untranslated strings in every one of the cb-plugin and translate them in to my language (making a new folder with my localization letters) after that it was all ok.

So back to my question - Why are not all language strings in the CB language plugin?

In this case you only have to translate them in one place, and that would be in the cb-language plugin.

paxx wrote:
So back to my question - Why are not all language strings in the CB language plugin?

Here are 2 reasons:

1. We do not want to load strings that are not used because people have not installed extra add-ons. It would just create a performance hit for no reason.

2. We do not want to make drastic changes to our CB language project. If we do as you state then each time a new add-on is released we would need to burden the CB language project - thus it will be very difficult for 100% translated projects to appear.

Hi
Thank you so much for clarify this, now I know.