[IMPLEMENTED] Templates need language files

In the template folder there need to be a language folder where one can place additional language files used by the templates.

Currently I extend the template options in backend, so I have to write not language constants, but directly English into the template xml.

interesting idea

Any news?

actualy .. you can use overvide language file not ?
for stable version of 1.5.6 and 2.0 all features are closed ..

Do you mean joomla override function? Or what file?
I'd like to copy a template and to add some language strings only for it. The best and the easiest way is to add a language folder in the template and to automatically load files from the folder when editing the template positions or a category or an item type in BE - the places, where the template settings are used. This should be 5 lines of code, I think.

Now I just hardcode english text when I add a parameter to a template copy.

Putting code to load language specific files of current user language from an e.g "lang" subfolder inside the template folder is quite easy

e.g
blog/language/en-GB/en-GB.ini
blog/language/fr-FR/fr-FR.ini
blog/language/de-DE/de-DE.ini
blog/language/ru-RU/ru-RU.ini

and has been suggested before to place it inside item.php, but we can put a single code inside the view.html.php of category and items view to cover all templates, the presence of these files can be detected and loaded

is that what you suggest?