Re: Customization of Langauge.php
Clausen is talking about clearing the template caches at your site, I believe. This is done on the System Admin page (tiki-admin_system.php).
About customizing the language file, if you want custom interface terms at your site, you can make a lang/en/custom.php file (or whatever language you're modifying). Tiki will check this file first for the strings, so they'll override the default language file. Copy the exact format of the default file but with your strings and "translations" and save it as "custom.php" in the language's directory. If you do it this way, you won't have to worry about updates overwriting your customized file, etc. Be sure to save the file with your editor configured for utf-8 encoding.
AFAIK, get strings is to find language strings in Tiki's files and isn't involved with implementing them. You should see your changes as soon as the modified file is in place and the site template caches are cleared.
Improving Tiki's English interface language is on the agenda, but is a rather involved job due to the many files involved, so will probably be tackled after version 1.10 is solid.
-- Gary
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