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Atlassian Translations – a collaborative environment for creating translations of JIRA

The Atlassian Translations site provides a collaborative environment for customers to translate JIRA. (Refer to the instructions for more information). At present there are thousands of accepted translations across a number of languages. We need your help to make this even better! If you are looking at updating or creating a language pack please use Atlassian Translations and tell us about your experience. You can log in with your My Atlassian account. To provide feedback or submit an existing language pack for import please contact The Internationalisation Team.

What translations of JIRA are currently available?

Currently, JIRA ships with a number of translations in the most commonly-requested languages. You can easily update these via the Universal Plugin Manager — please see Managing JIRA's Plugins.

As a JIRA administrator, you can choose the default language from the list of installed languages: see Choosing a Default Language for the latest list.

Individual users can also choose their preferred language from the same list: see Choosing a Language.

What about translations of the documentation?

We do not currently offer translations of the JIRA documentation into other languages. However, we do offer a page where people can contribute the guides they have written in languages other than English: JIRA Documentation in Other Languages.

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  1. Apr 03, 2007

    Nashev

    there are double text in example:

    Once completed, these can be transformed into regular .properties files with the 'native2ascii' command. E.g. for Russian:

    native2ascii _-encoding cp1251 JiraWebActionSupport_ru_RU-native.txt native2ascii _-encoding cp1251 JiraWebActionSupport_ru_RU-native.txt

  2. Apr 29, 2007

    Felix Pahl

    Two things to correct and/or improve about the presentation of JIRA translations:

  3. Aug 28, 2009

    KAA

    Добрый день.
    Задача: сделать так, чтобы в сообщениях от JIRA фразы

    This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
    -
    If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: *http://***/secure/Administrators.jspa (http://***/secure/Administrators.jspa*)*
    -
    For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

    были на русском языке.
    Тупой поиск по папке JIRA результата не дал, шаблонов не нашел.
    Где зашиты эти фразы?

    1. Sep 03, 2009

      Anton Mazkovoi

      These language keys and values are in MailingListCompiler.properties. So for Russian you will need to create MailingListCompiler_ru_RU.properties with Russian translations, or edit one if one already exists.

      Cheers,
      Anton

  4. Oct 29, 2009

    Ferran Busquets

    For translating Jira 4 there are an issue about "how to translate bundled plugins": http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-19529

  5. Jan 25, 2010

    Kirill Petrov

    Can someone suggest how translate buttons (TOOLS,ADD GADGET,EDIT LAYOT) in JIRA4 ?

    1. Jul 14, 2010

      Ladislav Lencucha

      see where to look at:

      http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-19529?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Aworklog-tabpanel

  6. May 08, 2010

    Anton Kolin [Teamlead]

    For russian users JIRA and Confluence, please see Russian Localization Plugin.

  7. Aug 26, 2011

    Anna Mikhaylova

    There is no file "language_default.jar" in JIRA 4.4. at all :(
    What file can we use instead?

    1. Aug 26, 2011

      Jaan Raamets

      Yeah, looks like Atlassian changed translation in 4.4 again. But the question is what would you like to do? If you want translate new language, then contact Atlassian Translations team. If you want just to improve some translations, then register user at Atlassian Translations and start collaborating :)

      And if you want change some language translatsions, then maybe go to Atlassian Translation, download the language jar, that you want to change, unzip it, try to change com/atlassian/jira/web/action/JiraWebActionSupport_<Language Code>_<Country Code>.properties, zip it again as .jar and install with JIRA plugin manager.

      Of course you can play around with jira-lang-<Language Code>_<Country Code>-4.4.jar files from WEB-INF/lib directory too.

      1. Aug 26, 2011

        Anna Mikhaylova

        Jaan,
        thank you for your help and extremely useful links!
        I want to correct and add some russian translations, so I need to know what exactly property I have to change or add.
        As far as I understand if some text hasn't been translated yet, I cannot find it in my language-jar(

        1. Aug 26, 2011

          Jaan Raamets

          Anna you should be able to search it in Atlassina translation web page, it has pretty good search (but you must play a bit with different search parameters). Or maybe you could use the jira-lang-en_US-4.4.jar form from WEB/lib catalog instead of old language_default.jar . I used the german version for testing - if some word in UI was not translated to german, then I did give up the search, if it was tranlsated, then I did try to find it in file.

    2. Aug 26, 2011

      Paul Slade

      Anna, I am the Dev Manager for JIRA.  We are in the process of updating the documentation to reflect the steps that Jaan outlined in his comment.  I too am interested in what you are trying to do.  You can see more details on how to use Atlassian Translations here -  Atlassian Translations.

      1. Aug 26, 2011

        Anna Mikhaylova

        Paul,
        I want to correct and add some russian translations, so I need to know what exactly property I have to change or add.
        Thank you for useful link, but search by translation in translation.atlassian.com doesn't seem to work for Russian language :(
        It would be much easier to have one source in English (how it was in previous JIRA version), where I could find every string.
        As far as I understand if some text hasn't been translated yet, I cannot find it in my language-jar(

        1. Aug 28, 2011

          Paul Slade

          Anna, there is an hidden option in JIRA 4.3 and above that will show the message keys for parts of the user interface that can be translated.  To turn it on just put i18ntranslate=on at the end of any URL.

          1. Aug 29, 2011

            Anna Mikhaylova

            Paul, thank you!

            Your option - that's exactly what I need!

  8. Feb 06, 2012

    Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]

    Maybe you want to try AppFusions' "SpeakMyLanguage" Translation On-demand" plugin for JIRA.

    https://www.appfusions.com/display/SPKMYJ/Home