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[Martian]

Dear VirtueMart community,

I have a little site I am working on through Joomla Version 1.5.23 with  VirtueMart Version 1.1.8 (stable).

Since I like the shop to be in English and German I have downloaded the language pack "Language_Pack_for_VirtueMart_1.1.zip" from here: http://virtuemart.de/download/file/12-sprachpaket-fuer-virtuemart and added the german.php and germani.php to here: "/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages" in the corresponding folders.

Since I am using Joom!fish for the other translations I am now wondering how to tell the shop to use the English and German language files.

If someone could help me with the following questions or at least point me to a documentation or useful links about switching languages in VirtueMart on one site that would be most appreciated.

There are my questions.

- Have I actually used the right language pack or do I need to download a more recent one from somewhere else? If so where should I get the latest language pack please?

- What is the difference between german.php and germani.php? Do I need both or just one for plain standard German, DE, CH and AT?

- How do I tell the shop to call the corresponding languages? For example if a user sets the site language to English (both German and English are also installed in the Joomla admin directory) how do I tell the shop to also appear in English rather than German?

- So far I am doing my translations for the German content with Joom!fish. Can this also be done with VirtueMart or do I need to apply another method here? I would assume so but not sure.

Last not least I would like to add that I am not a novice considering coding and web dev but a first time user with Joomla and VirtueMart. So far I have been mostly doing xhtml, js and css and a bit of java. Since the official documentation does not cover switching languages http://virtuemart.net/documentation/User_Manual/index.html I would be very happy about help with my questions or at least links to where I can learn about it.

Thanks for your time and efforts.

Your informative reply will be highly appreciated and no I don't expect you to do the work for me, but simply guide me in the right direction. Thanks so much!

[Martian]

Is there anyone here that could possibly help me with my questions? There is a time limit on the shop and the site is coming online soon, so if there is no one here that can help please let me know so that I can start looking for help in other places.

Yes I know this is an open source product and users are surly not entitled to free support. I understand all that and completely respect that mentality.

However it would also be really highly appreciated if there is someone here that might be able to point me in the right direction. I am not asking for a complete solution nor detailed explanation, however a little hint or a link to a site explaining how to have VirtueMart appear in more than one language on a site (user selected) would be fantastic.

Again thanks for your attention and time, hope you have a good time enjoying the lunar eclipse. Please don't leave me in the dark with my questions though. Thanks so much.