How to add new language to OpenMRS 2x?

I have tried following steps but the language is not listed in Default Locale drop-down. I am trying to add Pashto language to OpenMRS. I have translated some modules in Transifex - Pashto.

  1. I have followed the instructions of wiki and added message_ps.properties file.
  2. Added language code to locale.allowed.list

Result: I see the Pushto language in Proficient Locales but it is not listed in Default Locale drop-down

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Can you create a trunk ticket and attach your translated message properties file?

every module had different message properties file, which one should i attach to the ticket?

How can I do it locally?

Is this of help? https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/How+To+Translate+the+OpenMRS+Platform+and+Modules

Transifex will take care of downloading the message properties files, but we will need to edit each of their configs so they know about more languages, e.g. this file: https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-coreapps/blob/master/.tx/config

We should probably script this so we can add all the missing languages to all the modules in one go. I won’t have time to do this, so @hpardess, are you in a position to look at this? If you need to just add pashto, that’s okay, but if you’re already doing that and it’s easy to add other languages, which @ibatista can help make a list of, then that would be great.

PS- also each module’s config.xml files would need to be updated to reflect the new language(s) too.

Sure I will add all the languages that in mentioned file. Also in config.xml file of each module. @ibatista: I am waiting for list of languages and modules those should be updated.

Do I need to create a ticket for this? Which project should I select for ticket?

@hpardess, I realize that @ibatista probably doesn’t have that data.

I have run a script against transifex. Assuming I got it right, here is a list of all the resource + language combinations that have translations: everything-with-translations.csv (9.7 KB)

Is this enough to work with?

Go ahead and reference the existing ticket RA-1000 in the PRs. (Unless you especially want to create a new ticket to describe the details better…)

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@hpardess, as a side note here. We are working on this: ADDR-108: ‘Enable i18n support for address hierarchy entries’. Regarding the i18n support for gazetteers, this is particularly relevant when you deal with a second language that uses non-Roman characters, which is the case with Pashto.

We are about to start early testing, let us know if you would be interested in that feature too.

I made the changes in .tx/config.xml and omod/src/main/resources/config.xml file but I am not able to commit it to github (https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-allergyapi). I followed https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/Pull+Request+Tips but I can not create pull request.

Could you be more specific? Are you getting some error message?

The idea is that you need to be a /dev/3 or above to commit directly to modules under the openmrs github org.

If we can’t get the PR workflow to work for some reason, I can temporarily grant you direct commit access so that you can make all these changes to .tx/config and config.xml as efficiently as possible.

Let me know what works best.

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That would be good if I get direct access and commit my changes to .tx/config.xml and omod/src/main/resources/config.xml file of each module.

I will add all the languages listed in csv file generated by you.

@hpardess, I invited you to the /dev/3 team. Let me know when you’re done making these changes, and I’ll revert that.

(But you should feel free to go through the dev stages in the normal way also!)

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