Creating a New Translation

If you want to create a new translation (i.e. language file) for openlp.org, these are the steps you need to follow.

1. Copy the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\openlp.org\Languages\english.xml file to your My Documents directory.
2. Open the file in a text editor, (an XML editor might be easier to use if you can find one), replacing all the English values (in the Caption="" and other similar XML attributes) with your translation. If you have any special characters (like è) then you need to use the HTML/XML entity code instead. There is a list of entities on the W3Schools site, you can use the codes from the Entity Number column (not the Entity Name, as previously published).
3. Save this new file with a new name, setting the "Name" of your language.
4. Import the new language into openlp.org by using the Import Language option (see Figure 1).