[translations] reason for translations not showing up / contributing

[Gábor Hojtsy]

On Jan 9, 2008 10:39 AM, Tomislav Grabic <grabic at iik-duesseldorf.de> wrote:
> I have a Drupal installation with English and German translations. For
> some reason, some email texts, which are translated and parts on the
> website (I'm using a wide range of modules) don't show up when changing
> the language settings to German. Is this a known bug or does anyone know
> what could be a reason for such behavior?

(Most) email texts (at least in core) are user modifiable (which says
that they are considered user provided content). User provided content
is not translated in Drupal.

> Also, our translator started adding translations to the de.po exported
> from our installation. I've looked around on the Drupal website, but
> couldn't find info how to filter/export newly translated strings for
> individual modules out of our general de.po file to be able to upload it
> into the cvs. I'd be thankful for any pointers.

Read Partial translation at http://drupal.org/node/11311

Gabor