i18n

Hi,

Is there a way to automatically wrap all "translated" text with html tags? For example, the font for dz (Dzongkha/Tibetan) is really quite small compared to western fonts due to the possible height of characters in the language. It would be very useful to take any text and wrap it with tags so that I could then institute text formatting with a stylesheet, while not disturbing and western text that may be untranslated.

First post here in this group, so a warm "Hi!" to everyone!

The background

I just noticed that Carlos Miranda Levy added a Spanish translation to MySite CVS!

Some notes about translations (and for translators):

• I neither commit nor update .po files. I simply don't have the time.
• Any user with a CVS translator account can commit translation files to any project.
• The current stable branch of MySite is 5--2; this is where the 5.x.2 release series comes from. This series is bugfix only. Current translations should be committed to this branch.

Updated: June 20, 2007: RTL HTML Email now possible with my patch to the new htmlmail module.

Requirements for Drupal 6 core RTL email support - Request for comments

It has been 8 months since I've implemented a Drupal 4.7 user.module patch to support RTL emails (attached).

My next target is to ask for the RTL/i18n community help to update the code and migrate those proven changes into the Drupal 6 core. This will save tons of later headache.

Here are the basic requirements - I will need your feedback on the concept (implementation is quite straightforward).

Now that the RTL support is in core, here is a test RTL language switching on the fly.

I've installed the Language switcher patch, and activated the block - It works great - even with CSS compression tuned on. Test it now on http://dev.drupal.org.il and try to switch the language from LTR to RTL.

Update, May 31: The bluemarine RTL CSS patch has now been entered into Drupal 6's core. The dev site now displays a beta version of the next RTLised theme - pushbutton - for review (you can still select the bluemarine RTLised theme when you login). I've opened an issue Core RTL pushbutton theme is almost here - your help is needed.

Amnon

Since I know internationalization is a big deal to Canadians, I figured I'd cross-post this to some groups. Please don't kill me, this is important. :) There's very little time to get these patches in before code freeze! (June 1)

The following patches desperately need reviews from people familiar with internationalization of site content. The goal is to get Drupal 6 to have internationalization right in core:

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- translation of site settings, content types, user profile fields
and so on by storing translations of their string properties with

We have posted a patch to support object translation of certain Drupal objects (content types, user profile fields and categories, site settings, and so on) to multiple human languages. While we have clear concepts and very good ideas for the user interface (which we though before that would not be easy), performance-wise we are at crossroads. We would welcome beginner as well as expert reviewers to come and share their performance ideas about Drupal object translation, so Drupal 6 can include a mature translation infrastructure, advancing ahead of the competition. ;) We need your input!

"Introduce dynamic object translation API (optimize this!)" http://drupal.org/node/141461

Jose Reyero just completed updating the handbook “Internationalization: Building multilingual sites” on Drupal.org to reflect some of the new developments with i18n and Drupal 5.x. This new documentation makes it easier to start using i18n and to understand all the new features and fixes that both Jose and Gabor have been helping move forward. It even includes screenshots to show off some of the latest features added to the module.

It is a great place to start if you are looking to see if i18n will fit your needs and should save you a lot of time during basic set up. I know a lot of people new to i18n are coming to this group to see the latest on the module and would like to know more about what is happening right now with drupal 5.x, so I will try to post more often here with user end perspectives.

We are currently working on adding language support to nodes in a simple and clean way. Meanwhile separate implementation details and issues are now created and discussed in the issue queue of our project. Feel free to comment on our implementation and/or submit patches as we move along.