gerritonagoodday/am-ET_joomla_lang

Experimental Amharic Language Pack for Joomla using mostly Google Translate # Suite of Language Tranlation Utilities for Joomla First: What is Joomla? Find out here! Currently Joomla support around 50 spoken languages. Every revision of Joomla requires some text to be translated from the origin language, English, to be translated into all 50 languages. Most translation teams have developed their own set of tools, an here is another set of such tools. The tool set differs in that it is totally command-line driven and uses the collaboration abilities of Git to spread the work load across team members. ## Table of Contents - Suite of Language Tranlation Utilities for Joomla - Table of Contents - Instructions - Naming conventions - How much work is involved in creating a language pack? - How does the language pack build process work? - What are these translation report files? - Install the necessary tools - Install Git - Create an account for yourself on Github - Configure yourself in Git - Clone this Git repository - Special case: Create a new language pack - Local vs Global configuration - Get the latest Joomla CMS source code - Select the relevant release - Set up the configuration for building - Run the build tools - Working with Google Translate - How to complete the report files - Running the report files - Building your new language pack - Test and upload - Git Cheat Sheet - Where on earth am I? - Renaming files - Post changes - Remote Repositories - Branches - Merge branches - Dealing with Merge Conflicts - Tagging - Further information - Avoiding confusion: always know your current branch! - Some useful reference material _NOTE:_ >You can update this TOC as follows: ```bash grep "^#" README.md | sed -e 's/#/ /g' -e 's/ \(\s*\)\(.*\)/\1- \2/' \ -e 's/\(.*(#[a-z:_]*\) /\1_/g' -e 's/\(.*(#[a-z:_]*\) /\1_/g' -e 's/\(.*(#[a-z:_]*\) /\1_/g' \ -e 's/\(.*(#[a-z:_]*\) /\1_/g' -e 's/\(.*(#[a-z:_]*\) /\1_/g' -e 's/\(.*(#[a-z:_]*\) /\1_/g' ``` # Instructions The instructions are for any Joomla language pack that uses this tool-set for m …