Language translation for Gantry 5 constants - override does not work.

[marktaylor46]

Having studies the GRAV and Gantry 5 docs there does not appear to be a way of overriding the Gantry 5 language strings and having them be retained after either a Gantry 5 update or a theme update.

As a specific example, /user/plugins/gantry5/admin/translations/en/nucleus.yaml contains a number of string including GANTRY5_ENGINE_BLOG_ITEM_NEXT_POST and GANTRY5_ENGINE_BLOG_ITEM_PREV_POST which are "Next post" and "Previous post" respectively.

You can add German with /user/plugins/gantry5/admin/translations/de/nucleus.yaml file and that will work but the whole new folder will be removed by a gantry5 plugin update.

There should be a mechanism to override these constants by language that is not overwritten again by updates. I have tried using a "language.yaml" file but that does not appear to work.

After discussion with @mahagr he needs to investigate.

[mahagr]

As a workaround, you can copy the language file into your theme, for example user/themes/g5_helium/admin/translations/de/nucleus.yaml

[marktaylor46]

Thanks yes and also platform.yaml works too

[tobiashartmann]

@marktaylor46 @mahagr Are there already translation files e.g. for german, or can I contribute to generate them somehow? Greetings

[marktaylor46]

see https://github.com/gantry/gantry5/pull/2177/files