gizmecano / opencart-3-fr

A French language pack for the OpenCart ecommerce platform (from version 3.0.2.0)

opencart-3-fr

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Overview

opencart-3-fr is a French language pack for the ecommerce platform OpenCart (from version 3.0.2.0).

This pack brings together translated files for a French localization of the administration interface (backend) as well as the online store (frontend).

Background

This project succeeds to opencart-2-fr, developed and maintained from 2015 to 2018, but most of the translations have been completely reworked from scratch.

Principles

This language pack has been developed with some basic principles in mind:

• idiomatic translations: translation strings did not have been automatically generated, but by understanding the context in order to draft an appropriate formulation
• native utf-8 support: accented characters and typographic signs use standard utf-8 encoding
• proper typographics usages: typographic rules and practices used in the French language redaction (thin spaces and punctuation marks in particular) are respected
• understated technical jargon: technical references are translated in the most understandable manner possible
• gender-neutral formulations: in order to be as inclusive as possible, translations preferably use language that does not use the gender of users or visitors

Variants

Unlike the project that preceded it, this language pack is available in two different variants, both developed from a single common platform.

1. the free variant (hosted on GitHub) contains all the files necessary for the basic running of an OpenCart store: it should be sufficient in most cases
2. the full version (available on OpenCart Marketplace) contains additional files required for translating various extensions related to proprietary services: payment gateways, shipping methods, etc.

This distinction is due to several factors:

• keeping a basic version as lighter as possible for most users which are not using the additional extensions
• attempting to balance for often significant time spent translating files which are sometimes large but not necessary for a majority of users

The files only included in the full version are listed in an specific document.

To check which version of each variant is compatible with core versions of Opencart, a compatibility table is available.

Demonstration

To watch this language pack in action, you can visit the demo site. Access to the online store (frontend) is not restricted, but to observe the rendering in the administration interface (backend), you will need to log in with the following limited guest access:

• User name: guest
• Password: public.guest

Installation

Whenever you plan to install a new item on an existing Opencart website (module or language pack), it is strongly recommended that you test it first on a local development environment before installing it on the production site.

To install this language pack, extract the zipped package locally and transfer the files to the server (keeping the same structure) on the roots of a previously installed OpenCart website.

After that, open your OpenCart backend and follow the steps below:

1. Navigate to System -> Localisation -> Languages
2. Click the Add New button
3. Fill in the following values :

• Language Name : French
• Code : fr
• Locale : fr,fr-FR,fr_FR.UTF-8,french
• Status : Enabled
• Sort Order: 1 (or any other numeric value corresponding to the chosen order of language packs if others packs are enabled)

4. Save these changes
5. Navigate to System -> Settings
6. Click on the tab Local and define the standard languages for frontend (Language) and backend (Administration language): backend language will not change before this step
7. Save these changes
8. Installation is complete

Workflow

Versioning

The working process on this language pack aims to follow semantic versioning specification according to the steps bellow:

1. major (path level)

• add new folder
• move existing folder to other path
• delete obsolete folder

2. minor (file level)

• add new file in existing folder
• move existing file from existing folder to other one
• delete obsolete file in existing folder

3. patch (item level)

• add new string in existing file
• revise or fix existing string in existing file
• delete obsolete string in existing file

Contribution

Any suggestions or submissions (translation, optimisation, etc.) might be considered by opening an issue into the free variant repository.

Imprint

License

opencart-3-fr: a French opensource localization pack for ecommerce platform OpenCart (from version 3.0.2.0)

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Copyright © 2019-2023 P. Mergey

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see this page.

Credits

Illustrations were composed using:

• Wild Rooster photo by 榮達 陳, published on Unsplash under Unsplash license
• Inter font by Rasmus Andersson, available on GitHub under SIL license