How to translate the Pearl Theme, WeltPixel module or Magento 2 in another language.

A. You can translate Pearl Theme by following next steps:

1. Go to the root of your magento installation ('yourmgentoinstall.com/html') and run below command to export all theme and magento translations.

php bin/magento i18n:collect-phrases --output="dictionary.csv" -m

2. Find the generated dictionary.csv file in your root magento installation, open this file , it should contain four columns, leave just the first two, the rest you can delete, they should contain the same english texts.

3.Using a simple editor translate only the second column and the text between " ". Make sure all the strings in your .csv file start and end with double quotes, and are separated with comma[,], not semi-colon [;] or any other mark. Example: "Custom Footer","Benutzerdefinierte Fußzeile"

4. After you edited the file, rename the file using magento locale format ( Example: fr_FR.csv, it_IT.csv). The file name must exactly match the locale, and it is case sensitive xx_YY.csv.

5. Copy the file into app/design/frontend/Pearl/weltpixel_custom/i18n/ directory

6.a. For frontend translations make sure you have set your locale in Stores -> Configuration -> General -> Locale Options -> Locale -> Select your language

6.b. For backend translations  make sure you have set your users Interface Locale in <strong>Account Settings -> Account Information -> Interface Locale -> Select your language

7. Refresh all Magento caches and check results

B. You can translate a WeltPixel module by following the next steps:

You can translate a WeltPixel module by following the next steps: 

1. Go to app/code/WeltPixel/ModuleYouWantToTranslate/i18n where you should find en_US.csv.

2. Copy the content of this file in a new .csv file using magento locale format ( Example: fr_FR.csv, it_IT.csv). The file name must exactly match the locale, and it is case sensitive xx_YY.csv.

3. Using a simple editor translate only the second column and the text between " ". Make sure all the strings in your .csv file start and end with double quotes, and are separated with comma [,], not semi-colon [;] or any other mark. Example: "Custom Footer","Benutzerdefinierte Fußzeile"

4.a. For frontend translations make sure you have set your locale in Stores -> Configuration -> General -> Locale Options -> Locale -> Select your language

4.b. For backend translations make sure you have set your user's Interface Locale in Account Settings -> Account Information -> Interface Locale -> Select your language

5. Refresh all Magento caches and check results

C. Magento 2 language pack and related translations:

For more details on how to translate Magento core files into a different language, or how to apply a specific language pack, please refer to the official Magento documentation.