[Koha] Re: [Koha-devel] For the (non)coder

[Chris Cormack]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:22:30AM -0800, Tonnesen Steve said:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Nicholas Stephen Rosasco wrote:
> 
> > Is there any sort of target goal/date (I know MARC/z39.50 "completeness"
> > is coming along soon -- what a fantastic tool that is!  thanks!!!) for
> > getting a new version packaged, and are any translation issues for the
> > database for the new format expected?
> 
> 
> Regarding translation.  Despite living in a bilingual country, translation
> isn't my forte (note the use of french there.  :)
> 
> Translation isn't really required for the database, it's required for the
> interface.  Ideally, every string that is displayed to the user should be
> sent to a gettext() call that looks up a translation to the user's
> preferred language, if one is available.  This is no small undertaking
> even before any translations are done.  I know that _I_ won't be doing it
> for this release.
> 

Hi There,

This has already been done, ... Pawel Skuza has written a neat little script
that is called from apache that runs the output through gettext using the
language the user has chosen with their browser settings.
The code is in cvs at the moment, and with the preliminary testing ive done
with it was most pleasing.

# From the readme file

This is a small note about 'translator.pl'.
Author: Pawel Skuza
email: pawelzc at cz.top.pl

The Script 'translator.pl' does two things:
1. Prepares strings that can be translated;
2. Translates strings using gettext.

There is also a bundle of polish images for use for polish libraries (or any
other library that wants a polish interface of course)

This script should make it into the next release id imagine.

Chris

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