Evergreen 1.4.0.0, release candidate 2, was made available for download from http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php today. This release marks the culmination of a significant effort to enable translation in every public and staff interface in Evergreen - and at this point, the Evergreen development team plans to minimize any further changes to translatable strings before the 1.4.0.0 final release.

We would like to invite new translations. Evergreen currently includes the following translations:

* Armenian - hy-AM * French (Canadian) - fr-CA

However, as new interfaces such as the MARC importer/exporter have been developed and existing interfaces have been enhanced, these translations are in need of an update.

Evergreen maintains all translatable strings in GNU gettext (POT/PO) format. If you would like to contribute a new translation: 1. Download and extract the files from Evergreen 1.4.0.0 RC2 (http://evergreen-ils.org/downloads.php) 2. Create a new set of PO files based on the POT files in the build/i18n/en-US/ directory 3. Use a gettext-aware editor like POEdit (http://www.poedit.net/ for Windows or Linux) to translate the files 4. Send the translated files to the Evergreen Development mailing list (http://evergreen-ils.org/listserv.php) with a Developer's Certificate of Origin (DCO - http://open-ils.org/documentation/contributing.html#DCO) in the body of your email.

If you just want to translate the public interface (catalogue), you only need to translate the files "opac.dtd.pot" and "db.seed.pot".

If you have any questions about the translation process, or notice problems, please send a message to the Evergreen Development mailing list and we'll do our best to answer your question or correct our mistakes.

Thank you, in advance, for helping Evergreen enter a multilingual world!