Answers.Body: <p>It has been a while since I last did this, so I had forgotten about &quot;Administration-&gt;CiviMail-&gt;Header, Footers and automatic messages&quot; where you should do this. At least when it comes to subscriptions, confirmations etc.</p>
  <p>Don't. Touch. The. Message. Templates.</p>
  
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Body: <p>As the message templates are quite complex, especially the system-flow templates, with their Smarty templating structures, and they sometimes are updated, you would rather not edit them.</p>
  <p>But if you have users using other languages than English it is almost essential to translate them.</p>
  <p>Is there any best practice to manage this? <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/a/28570/354">Jon G suggested using a Smarty-enabled editor</a> which is at least one step towards not messing them up. But it doesn't resolve the issue with diffing against the system version when all the text in them has changed to another language...</p>
  
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Comments.Text: See also https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/mail/-/issues/83 where there is some work going on in this general area.
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Tags: <message-templates><translation>
Title: Best practices for translating message templates
ThreadText: # Best practices for translating message templates
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-05-05)
  
  As the message templates are quite complex, especially the system-flow templates, with their Smarty templating structures, and they sometimes are updated, you would rather not edit them.
  
  But if you have users using other languages than English it is almost essential to translate them.
  
  Is there any best practice to manage this? [Jon G suggested using a Smarty-enabled editor](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/a/28570/354) which is at least one step towards not messing them up. But it doesn't resolve the issue with diffing against the system version when all the text in them has changed to another language...
  
  **Tags:** message-templates, translation
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: See also https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/mail/-/issues/83 where there is some work going on in this general area.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2021-05-05. Score: 1
  
  It has been a while since I last did this, so I had forgotten about "Administration->CiviMail->Header, Footers and automatic messages" where you should do this. At least when it comes to subscriptions, confirmations etc.
  
  Don't. Touch. The. Message. Templates.
  
  
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