Localization, Themes, Skins and blogs

Hi,

I have a question about the localization features CS2.1 supports. I have my CS2.1 with the default theme and english language files.

I'd like to create a Hebrew skin for a blog. I need to use Hebrew strings, how shall I do it?

Will I need to create a new language pack for the Hebrew Language, if so how do I use the hebrew strings. I still need to use all te other engish blog skins CS2.1 has by default. Will choosing the language for my blog have effect for the resources my skin uses.

I'm asking this because I didn't see any reference to the language in the blog skin files.

Thanks,

yosi

You would need to create (or find) a language pack for Hebrew -- then, to set this as the default language, edit the communityserver.config file and update defaultLanguage to the localization string for Hebrew that you used to create/install the language pack.

For a tool to help create a new language pack, see http://communityserver.org/forums/thread/505456.aspx

but that would change all the strings on all the skins. That's not what I wanted. I want a specific skin to use the hebrew languge and the rest to use the english one. from what you say I understand that CS only supports 1 language per instance of the server. right?

CS language settings are user-specific (with a default for anonymous users and missing language resources) -- out-of-the-box, English (en-US) is the default language (as set in the communityserver.config file mentioned above), and, as language packs are installed, more options become available for registered users to select in their profile (Edit User Profile -> About -> Language).

You may be able to force a single blog theme to be a single language by removing all references to language resources -- but then you're not really supporting multiple languages.  Another possible approach would be to create new language resources for all resources used within a blog that exist only in the default language resource files and are always in Hebrew. ... this is not how CS is designed to work, though.