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+h1. Translating Tracks
+
+h2. Overview
+
+Translating Tracks into another language is not very difficult and does not require you to be a developer
+
+In general the steps are:
+
+* get a copy of tracks
+** either make a copy of your running tracks (to make sure you always have a working verions)
+** or get it from git using @git clone git://github.com/TracksApp/tracks.git@
+* create an empty locale file in @/config/locales@, i.e. touch @/path/to/copy/of/tracks/config/locales/XX.yml@
+** @XX.yml@ is the locale file for your language where @XX@ is the short name for your country like the following who are allready there: en (english) or de (german) or nl (dutch).
+* run Tracks in development mode: @script/server -e development@
+** this will run tracks on localhost on port 3000
+** this will require you to configure a database in @config/databases.yml@ for the development environment. To be safe, use a copy of your database or make backups!
+** access it by pointing your webbrowser to @http://localhost:3000@
+* go to your preferences page and select your language as default
+** all pages should look wrong or fail. No worry!
+* point your browser to @http://localhost:3000/translate@
+** this is the translate plugin that will show you all strings that need to be translated
+** set the filter right: set your language by choosing "Translate from EN to XX" with XX being your language and choose Display
+** You can select "untranslated" to filter on untranslated strings
+* The "auto translage" link uses Google to translate the string. Very handy. Be aware though that it will translate parameters like @%{count}@ too. Change this back or Tracks will fail
+* When you save the translations, it will write it to @XX.yml@ in your @config/locales@ directory
+
+Some pages need to be translated manually:
+
+* @app/views/integrations/index.en.html@. Create an @index.XX.html@ in this directory with @XX@ being your language
+* Same goes for @app/views/data/index.en.html@ and @yaml_form.en.html@
+
+For the datepicker in the edit and new todo form, you need to add a translation file in @public/javascripts/i18n@. They can be found in http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#localization which references the following repository of translations: http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ui/i18n/
+
+h2. Help and troubleshooting
+
+* you can switch languages by changing the url on every page
+** http://localhost:3000?locale=nl will switch to dutch. 
+** if your page gives errors, first check with @locale=en@ if the error is caused by your language changes. Remember that auto translate can mess up parameters, sometimes putting a space between @$@ and @{param}@ and sometimes translating the name of the parameter!
+** see the i18n documentation for rails for more technical details http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html
+
+h2. Getting your changes into the next release
+
+* the easiest for the maintainer of Tracks is to create a clone of Tracks on github, merge your changes and issue a pull request.
+** make sure you only add your changes needed for the translation
+* or create a ticket on assembla with a patch with your changes
+* or upload the changed files to assembla in a ticket if creating a patch is not for you :-)