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December 2007

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Koha 3.0 Staff Client Ready for Translation
by Joshua Ferraro 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi all, Just a quick announcement for those of you interested in translating Koha 3.0 into your respective languages, the Staff Client POT file is ready for download and translation. I've created a generic POT that can be used, simply re-name the file to match your locale using RFC4646 conventions. Here's the link: http://git.koha.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=Koha;a=tree;f=misc/translator/po;h… (note that there is already a French translation written) The generic PO is called 'xx-XX-i-staff-prog-v-30000.pot'. You'll want to rename that file to match the language-script-region that you're translating. Starting with Koha 3.0, I'd like to propose a new naming convention for the PO/POT files in Koha that follows RFC4646 (have a look at http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ for an intro). We can utilize RFC4646's concept of 'extensions' to tag for the 'theme' (t) and 'interface' (i) and 'version' (v). For example, if you're creating a French translation in France, the filename would be: fr-FR-i-staff-t-prog-v-30000.po Note that FR is a 'region' subtag ... but in some languages, such as Chinese, it's also useful to be able to distinguish between 'script's, such as 'Hans' (Simplified Han) or 'Hant' (Traditional Han). So you might, if you are translating Koha into Chinese, end up with a filename like: zh-Hans-i-staff-t-prog-v-30000.po RFC4646 gives us a lot of flexibility in how we distinguish between various translations. There are two excellent programs for doing your translation, depending on which platform you're running: LocFactory Editor (for OSX) POEdit (for Windows) Of course, you're free to simply use a text editor if that suites you, but please make sure you're in UTF-8 mode. Once you've got your PO file into a state where you're happy with it, you have a number of choies: 1. you can email it to the koha-translate list 2. you can email it to me 3. you can add it to Git yourself In the coming weeks I'll be updating translate.koha.org in preparation for the 3.0 cycle of releases, and improving the documentation on how to internationalize your Koha system, but if you prefer to work with local PO files, I wanted to make sure you had that opportunity. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS jmf(a)liblime.com |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

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Re: [Koha-translate] Koha frameworks internationalisation
by Thomas Dukleth 13 Dec '07

13 Dec '07

If you have any language specific or MARC variant specific Koha frameworks for sharing so that others may benefit from your frameworks in forthcoming Koha 3.0, the frameworks export script is now ready for multiple operating systems. Obtain the latest version of the Koha 2.2.X MARC Frameworks Export Script for your operating system. The export script should function from any system with mysqldump and access to the database as the Koha user given in koha.conf . The only essential requirement is having mysqldump included in the system $PATH when running the script. [A possible later version may allow specifying the path to mysqldump as a user option if someone thinks that is needed.] Koha does not need to be installed on the system running the script nor does it even need Perl. 1. OPERATING SYSTEM SPECIFIC SCRIPT VARIANTS. 1.2. UNIX BASED VERSION. For Unix based systems (Unix, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) download the latest version of export_framework.sh. http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/koha/misc/export_frameworks.sh?view=l… For installation requirements type: export_frameworks.sh -? i For help type: export_frameworks.sh -? For usage examples type: export_frameworks.sh -? e 1.2. MICROSOFT WINDOWS VERSION. For Microsoft Windows systems (Unix, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) download the latest version of export_framework.bat for use as a script run from the command line console. http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/koha/misc/export_frameworks.bat?view=… For installation requirements type: export_frameworks.bat -? i The installation requirements message explains how to obtain and install the bsdtar for Win32 dependency which is not needed for the Unix version of the script. For help type: export_frameworks.bat -? For usage examples type: export_frameworks.bat -? e 2. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS. Upon completion, after a few seconds, the script gives a specific message about where to send an email with the exported frameworks file attached so that it may be edited for inclusion as part of Koha 3.0 to share with everyone. If anything goes wrong, an appropriate error message is displayed. Please contact me on or off list if you have any questions or need assistance using the script. Thomas Dukleth Agogme 109 E 9th Street, 3D New York, NY 10003 USA http://www.agogme.com 212-674-3783 On Mon, November 26, 2007 7:47 am, Thomas Dukleth wrote: > Do you use MARC 21 in a language other than English? Do you use UNIMARC > in a language other than French or English? Do you use a MARC variant > other than MARC 21 or UNIMARC? > > If you have any language specific or MARC variant specific Koha frameworks > for sharing, please contact me on or off the list. LibLime has asked me > to prepare whatever MARC frameworks I can obtain for use in the > forthcoming version of Koha 3.0. Share yours so that others do not need > to do redundant work. > > [MARC frameworks are either bibliographic or authorities frameworks and go > by various names in Koha depending upon how you access them. In the > system administration intranet interface, they are identified as Biblio > framework (MARC structure) for bibliographic frameworks or Thesaurus > structure for authorities. In the installation directories, they have > names such as structure_def.sql for bibliographic frameworks or > authorities_normal_marc.sql for authorities.] > > I will supply very simple instructions for exporting your frameworks from > your SQL database if you need such assistance. [...]

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