[#SQ-100] Translate project launcher - dashboard

squeakland

Translate project launcher

Created: 26/Feb/09 12:09 AM Updated: 17/May/11 06:00 AM

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translation, website

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From TRAC 8440 (bert)

When showing an Etoys project in the browser under Sugar, the page displayed is in English. It should be translated.

There should be a po file with the strings. Then we could convert to json which could be embedded in the launcher page script. This one seems to be BSD licensed: http://code.google.com/p/asynapse/source/browse/trunk/perl/Asynapse/bin/po2json.pl

Not sure if we can access the Browser's language tag from javascript, possibly we have to generate the language tage on server-side and insert as variable to the script.

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teefal added a comment - 07/Apr/09 04:04 PM

Do you mean:

1) the text outside the plugin should be i18n

2) we should pass a language variable into the plugin

3) something else

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Bert Freudenberg added a comment - 13/Oct/09 10:20 AM

This is about the English strings in http://squeakland.org/launcher which are displayed under Sugar offering to download instead of embedding the project.

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Bert Freudenberg added a comment - 17/May/11 06:00 AM

Almost fixed now, using a modified JavaScript launcher. Sources and translations are at
https://github.com/bertfreudenberg/etoys-plugin-launcher
We now have Spanish and German translations at
http://squeakland.org/launcher
Possible improvements:
* make non-latin languages work. This means switching to UTF-8 content type, but not sure how to do that for a single page.
* use server-side language detection. Currently it uses the navigator.language property which reports the user's system language, not the browser's preferred languages.