How do I translate British English strings into US English?

Question

I have created my own custom module. All of my outputted strings are wrapped in t functions. I have enabled Locale in core. I need to alter some of my module's strings and some field labels too, slightly, just a word here and there, form British English into US English.

What I'm trying to acheive is: if my site is being viewed in the US I want that to be automatically detected, and the adjusted strings/field labels displayed.

Thanks.

Solution: Install ip2country module. This provides a function called ip2country_get_country which returns an ISO 3166 two-character country code based on the user's IP address. Create a helper function that returns a boolean TRUE/FALSE is the country code is 'US'. Then just use if-else constructs to translate the required text.

Answer 1

First, I'm not sure about what this means "I cannot see any of the strings from my custom module." ... so my answer here may not be useful. but here goes:

Machines don't care about what the similarities are, variations of english might as well be chinese and spanish.. which works in our favour here!

Assuming (US) english is your primary/default language, translate only the strings you want in to the Queen's English: admin/config/regional/translate/translate

You may have to do some interesting stuff to make detection/selection work, but I think that's a new question.

Answer 2

There are two modules that may help you:

stringoverrides

or

stringoverrides_advanced