Special characters in translation file

[Dan1]

I'm translating my English shop into Spanish. in the es.php translation file, how do I get the spanish characters such as ñ á ó to show? I also need to know how to write the word "we'll" in the English translation file. The moment the character ' (apostrophe) is introduced into the translation the whole page disappears. Also how to do a line break if possible.

 

Is there a name for this format or code?

[Mellow]

You should not directly edit es.php or en.php.

 

For your translations you should use the tool integrated in Prestashop.

Go to back office => Localization => Translations (or Tools => Translations for PS1.4.x)

 

You can even change english expressions by translating english to english...

 

As far as I know, line breaks are not possible.

[Dan1]

Why shouldn't I? I've been doing it for a long time. I and many other users can't translate through back office due to problems with this Prestashop functionality. I should add that this is for module translation, not front office translation. Front office translation through BO does work.

Edited November 15, 2012 by Dan1 (see edit history)

[Mellow]

OK! so forget what I said (But I prefer using Prestashop translation funtionality, even if it's not perfect...)

 

To add apostrophe in a translation file, use \'

ex :

$_MODULE['*******************e3c832882b39d8fecbd2c'] = 'We\'ll have to use this';

 

To use Spanish special caracters you need tu use an editor that can save the file as utf_8 encoded (Notepad++ for exemple)

Or use an online tool to convert all special caracters to utf_8

 

Regards

Edited November 15, 2012 by Mellow (see edit history)

[Dan1]

Thank you very much Mellow. The apostrophe info worked as well as using Notepad++ (choosing the "Encoding" menu, then "Encode in UTF-8 without BOM").