Hi,
I would like to enhance usability of my site by customizing some terminology. However, I can only manage strings in the localization settings for additional languages (such as German, which is installed).
Is it possible and save to install a "dummy English" language pack and customize terms from that end? Has anybody done something similar or how do you guys cope with terminology such as "add vocabulary" that you don't neccessary want to bug users with? I don't want my users to become experts in Drupal terminology first, I'd like them to read "add menu" (which is TECHNICALLY incorrect but which is exactly what the user - in his/her perception - is doing. He/She wouldn't want to know about taxonomy_menu and the workings in the background, right).
Many thanks
Patrick
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Yes you can create a new
Yes you can create a new language, call it English2 or something and make it the default language on the site. You would pre-propulate it by exporting English and importing it to English2....then you can start to play around with strings.
A site that wants to have British and American English could do the same thing.
Yep
Switch on the "locale" module, then go to admin/settings/language/add, add your language (e.g. en-GB for British English, but you can call it what ever you like). Then make it the default language at admin/settings/language/overview, You can go to admin/build/translate/search to search for and translate strings manually.
If you want standard British English, you can save a bit of time by going to http://localize.drupal.org/translate/languages/en-gb page, and "exporting" the data for what ever projects you need (drupal for core, ubercart is another commonly requested one), and then importing those into your new languages. Strings will be updated immediately.