i have develop a component in joomla 1.5 and make .xml file to install in my .xml i have administrator menu like
<administration><menu>COM_MY_COMP</menu>
<submenu>
<menu task="display">COM_MY_COMP_MENU1</menu>
<menu task="additem">COM_MY_COMP_MENU2</menu>
</submenu>
and in language file i set the item like
COM_MY_COMP="My Component"
COM_MY_COMP_MENU1="Dispaly"
COM_MY_COMP_MENU2="Dispaly2"
it working on other item but not on administrator menu , it is not convert to COM_MY_COMP
to My Component
i use joomla 1.5.
You can't just add the language file to the folder. You need to re-install the component WITH the language file. Here is what you need to add to the xml.
<languages folder="language-admin">
<language tag="en-GB">en-GB/en-GB.com_yourcomponent.ini</language>
<language tag="en-GB">en-GB/en-GB.com_yourcomponent.menu.ini</language>
</languages>
Also may I say that if its the menu you are trying to translate, you will need a separate language file like en-GB.com_yourcomponent.menu.ini
and below is how it should look.
COM_YOURCOMPONENT="Your Component"
COM_YOURCOMPONENT.CONTROL_PANEL="Control Panel"
Hope this helps