Magento 2 Translate Checkout

Question

I've been encountering an issue where I am unable to translate fields in Magento 2 checkout.

Steps I have take:

1. Created app/design/frontend/Company/theme/i18n/en_US.csv

2. Added strings to update:

   "Review & Payments", "Review & Pay", "Apply Discount Code", "Apply Promotional Code"

3. Ran the following:

   bin/magento setup:upgrade
   bin/magento cache:flush
   php bin/magento setup:content-static:deploy en_US
   

When refreshing the frontend, the translation in the checkout does not update. However, using the same steps works for all other front-end aspects of the site.

Answer 1

After much head banging and trying I finally figured out what the problem was. Localizing inside a theme such as app/design/frontend/Company/theme/i18n/en_US.csv does appear to get incorporated into the knock-out translations in the checkout. Why? I'm not sure, but I did come up with a solution that worked by creating an entire language pack.

Step 1, create a CSV of all translatable phrases used in the store. Run the following in ssh:

php bin/magento i18n:collect-phrases -o en_US.csv -m

Step 2, create a language pack such as app/i18n/CompanyName/en_US/ instructions on creating dictionaries and language packs are available in the Magento 2 developer documentation at http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-i18n.html

Step 3, Update the phrases in the language pack to match the translation and localization needs

Step 4, refresh caches and deploy via ssh:

php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_US

A full write up including each step for creating a language pack can be found at http://www.ecommercegorilla.com/translation-localization-of-a-magento-2-store/

Answer 2

Before you delete this empty file

Normally this file is generated by language you have to launch a

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy fr_FR en_US 

tell me if that work