Technical Guidelines for Translation
From Joomla! Documentation
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Translations for Joomla! have a number of technical requirements and guidelines.
Requirements and Guidelines for Language Packs[edit]
All ini files need to be saved as UTF-8 - No BOM.
Requirements and Guidelines for Localised Distributions[edit]
Requirements and Guidelines for Help Screens[edit]
Requirements and Guidelines for Sample Data[edit]
Sample data are created by exporting tables from a Joomla! database to a file called sample_data.sql.