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November 26, 2015 at 5:05 am

Hi Rob,

Is the file name correct? It’s called event-espresso-4-nl.po

No, the file needs to be renamed.

The format should be event-espresso-4-{locale}.po

So in your case it would be event-espresso-4-nl_NL.po

2. I made modifactions to the file, but upon saving i get an error that the .mo file can’t be created

There were 2 errors with the file, the first being the filename wasn’t set correctly (explained above) so POEdit didn’t know what language the file was.

POEdit will show you any issues with the translations when you try to save, it highlights them in red – http://take.ms/n9aRF

Clicking on that line provides details at the bottom – http://take.ms/NzbT7

So the reason the translation is breaking is due to the fact that the original string begins with \n whilst the translated string does not.

Swapping the translation to use this – http://take.ms/akE66

Fixes the problem and allows for the file to save.

Here is a copy of the files I used – http://take.ms/lkCZz

This has actually highlighted an issue with the translation files in that those \n and \t characters should not be there. I’ve created a ticket to have them remove but for not the above files should work fine.

3. A question. How do I translate the pop up message e.g. the Congratulations message after finishing a subscription.

That section should translate with the PO/MO files.

Just search the PO file for Congratulations – http://take.ms/1Kune

Does that help?

November 27, 2015 at 6:40 am

Have you selected the language within your WordPress settings?

Dashboards -> Settings – > General -> Site Language.

What is it set to?

You can find a step by step guide to translating EE here:

https://eventespresso.com/wiki/how-to-translate-event-espresso/

November 27, 2015 at 7:07 am

No need for admin login, the problem is the site language setting doesn’t match the the translation files your using currently.

The site is set to Dutch, which in WordPres will be using the Locale de_DE.

That’s how WordPress itself is setting the locale, not EE.

Then EE is using that locale to load the translations files, so its looking for event-espresso-4-de_DE.mo

So to load your nl_NL translation files, you need to set the language to ‘Netherlands’.