Contact form and Roles names are not translatable !

Yeah.. I'm having this problem as well..
Looks like the drupal 6 internationalization still has some way to go..

Right now, I'm still working on translating menu, taxonomy, views, webform and getting globalredirect to work as intended. Phew! Doing translation is quite some work :P

I miss the categories box in contact form. I can think of an quick way to fix it, just add a field to the Contact table with language of each category and then filter categories that fit the current language.. but I'll leave it for others to do it.

simon

zmove how did you translate contact form information? Did it go with i18n?

tia

thanks.

@zmove: did you ever get some feedback from any of the core devs? If not you might have better luck on the developers mailing list or on IRC.

- Arie

Looks like zmove won't be posting any feedback so I'm setting this to fixed.

Feel free to reopen if you think that is wrong.

- Arie

I'be veen looking everywhere. Are role names traslatable? I have an spanish / english site, and I can't let the role names only in spanish cause that wouldn't be understand by those who speak english.
Did someone find a way to translate the role names?

@9: you would probably need to use i18n module, see http://drupal.org/node/304002.

For anyone else who comes by here, if that doesn't also fix the contact form translateability then try http://drupal.org/project/tcontact.

I already have i18n installed, but the role names are not being translated.

Ah yes, I was looking at #18954-28: "anonymous user" and "authenticated user" are not translateable, but http://api.drupal.org/api/function/user_edit_form/6 and http://api.drupal.org/api/function/user_roles/6 appear to give no option for i18n or anything else for that matter to translate role names ...

Have opened issue here #598862: Custom user roles are not translatable in core alone (requires a contributed module) against i18n project, but this may actually be a core bug/"feature".

Thanks! I already suscribe for that issue so I can see any progress or anwser on it. I have an spanish site and it doesn't look good if i send an english user "you have been assigned the role pintor" :P
Thanks again for opening the issue.

I have the same problem too. Have you found the solution, mairav?

suppose this will never fixed

@blueblade, I couldn't find a solution yet.
I found this posts where they sent a patch to cvs for drupal 7 (#598862: Custom user roles are not translatable in core alone (requires a contributed module))
But they say nothing about commiting to drupal 6.

The problem is that drupal 7 is not ready yet, but I cant launch a site with untranslated role names... and for what I saw is a problem a lot of us is suffering.

Hi mairav,

Thanks for replying. I guess we just have to leave some text in the original language. How are you dealing with this tho?

BB

#10 already contains the right pointers to modules that can solve this issue for D6.

@gpk: You can "won't fix" in such situations, too :)

after digging around for a bit although i agree with sun that #10 points to i18n as a module that COULD solve the issue of translating roles - as far as i can tell no one has written that module yet. I think it would be a module which uses i18nstrings module - but don't think one has been written yet.

so, for now, D6 has no solution for translating roles - although sounds like it could be done with i18n and therefore not required to hack core

not quite sure what i was doing and documentation is a bit weak.. but this seems to let me translate roles.

in my custom module (caubo.module):

/**
 * Implementation of hook_locale().
 */
function caubo_locale($op = 'groups', $group = NULL) {
  switch ($op) {
    case 'groups':
      return array('roles' => t('Roles'));
    case 'refresh':    // don't think this is required
      if ($group == 'roles') {
        return caubo_locale_refresh();
      } 
    case 'info':
      $info['roles']['refresh callback'] = 'caubo_locale_refresh';
      $info['roles']['format'] = FALSE;
      return $info;     
  }
}

/**
 * Read all existing legal strings into the local system.
 */
function caubo_locale_refresh() {
  $results = db_query("SELECT * FROM {role}");
  while ($role = db_fetch_object($results)) {
    if ($role->rid == 1) continue;    // don't add Anonymous since it is handled by t() in core
    i18nstrings_update_object("roles:role:" . $role->rid, $role, array('name'));
  }  
  
  return true;
}

and then to use this i have a custom form that lists some of my roles for user to select:

  $display_roles = get_roles();
  foreach($display_roles as $role){
    if ($role) {
      $role_name = db_result(db_query("SELECT name FROM {role} WHERE rid = %d", $role)); 
      $role_name = i18nstrings("roles:role:$role:name", $role_name);
      if (substr($role_name, 0, 2) != $filter) {
        if(in_array($role, $approval_roles)) {
          
          $role_name .= " <i>*" . t("needs administration approval") . "</i>";
        }
        $roles[$role] = $role_name;
      }
    }
  }

Roles can be translated with a very simple patch worked out for D8
http://drupal.org/node/1759810

Applies to D6 without any change

Edit:
This does not work