Editing default translations files

Question

I have edited some translations in my multi language e-commerce site.

In particular, I want to change some words in the English version site. In the homepage there is a menu which contains word BAG: I want to translate BAG to SHOPPING BAG.

Translations files are contained in two folders:

• app\locale\en_US : where there are lot of translations files with different names.
• app\design\frontend\enterprise\tName\locale\en_US : where there are only two csv files: translate.csv and alp.csv.

I edited every translations file adding in the csv file the string

"Bag","Shopping bag"

But this editing is not shown in the fronted site.

What files should I change to achieve my goal ? Why can't I see any changes ?

Answer 1

Firstly I would check to see your locale settings for the store. You can check this under System -> Configuration -> General -> General, then the Locale Options -> Locale field.

Assuming you are using "United States" as your locale for your store I would clear the translations and block caches as any changes you make to those translate.csv files won't appear until the cache is cleared.

If at this point they are not appearing I would check that your theme is not using a different theme for translations under System -> Configuration -> General-> Design, then Themes -> Translations field.

Another possibility could be that their maybe inline (database) translations. This would have higher priority over module (app/locale) or theme translations (package/theme/locale/) files as Magento gives inline translations the highest priority.

You can turn on inline translations by going to System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Developer, then setting Translate Inline -> "Enable for frontend" to "Yes" and clearing the Magento cache and then viewing your Magento store (shouldn't be done on live unless you add your IP to Developer Restrictions on the same configuration page) you should see red dotted line around the text you can edit and when you hover you should see a book icon which you can click to edit and then save the text.

You can read more about translations on how they work here - http://blog.belvg.com/magento-certified-developer-exam-internationalization.html

Answer 2

To change any category Name Translation

You have to go for Manage Categories => choose your store => choose category what you want to change => Change Category Name =>save