Custom translation of Zotero

embassyhill
Can I use a custom translation of Zotero? If I set the about:config parameter to my locale, the citations are translated incorrectly. I couldn't find the translation files in Zotero's folder so I imagine it's actually done through that website?
  • adamsmith
    no, the locales are shipped with Zotero, but they're packed into the software so customizing them is rather involved.
    Could you specify at bit more what's wrong and in which language?
  • embassyhill
    I'm a programmer so I could go through the trouble if there was a little bit of direction and it is feasible.

    The language is Estonian and the phrase that's in front of the date when a website was visited is "Vaadatud *date*" but in our university they suggest "Külastatud *date*".
  • adamsmith
    it's much easier to customize a citation style see here specifically
    http://citationstyles.org/downloads/specification.html#locale
    and here generally
    http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/citation_styles/style_editing_step-by-step


    but if you want to customize the CSL locale within Zotero, it's here:
    https://github.com/zotero/zotero/tree/master/chrome/content/zotero/locale
    (that's the version on github, obviously, but it tells you were to look in the zotero.jar which you'd then have to repack after changing this)
  • embassyhill
    Thank you for quick and very helpful replies.
  • RintzeRintze
    edited March 28, 2013
    The Estonian CSL locale that ships with Zotero hasn't seen any translation updates for the past few years, so please feel free to take a look whether any translations can be improved. See

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/blob/master/locales-et-EE.xml

    and, for instructions,

    https://github.com/citation-style-language/locales/wiki
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