[Koha-devel] Multilingual Support in The User interfase

[Paul POULAIN]

Answer to koha-devel to, unless your mail is really private, that's is 
not the case here.
Andres Tarallo wrote:

> Paul POULAIN wrote:
>
>>> I've noticed that in the config file I can't specify a "Default 
>>> Language" for the User Interfase, but I've noticed that there are 
>>> Language especific directories (ie 
>>> koha/intranet/htdocs/intranet-tmpl/default/en).  Koha will take into 
>>> account the preferred language for the browser and act acordingly?
>>
>> iirc no (not a bug, but a feature)
>
> I'm not very fanatic of the "inteligent web applications"  that sense 
> the prefered language of the browser and serve pages accordingly. I 
> rather prefer to chose a default languaje and serve pages in that 
> languaje, it prevents us against mis configured web browsers.
>
>>> Even tough there are translations to various languajes it seems to 
>>> me  that they aren't integrated to the main tree. I want to 
>>> contribute my work to the main tree,  are ther any plans to 
>>> integrate to the tree the trasnlations?
>>
>> The plan here is quite simple : if you do a translation, ask for a 
>> sourceforge account or send me the file (if it's for 2.2 future 
>> release) & i'll add it. (Note translators are added to the "about" 
>> page, so they become famous all around the world ;-) )
>
> As I've told you I'm also working withe people of SIU (Argentina) and 
> I'll be working based on their work, so they also deserve credit :).  
> I've  been messing with the C4 modules and I still dont understand how 
> the language files are choosen.

Don't spend too many time on this : this will change soon. Really soon 
(waiting for a commit from chris)
The new feature will be : the default language is still stored in 
systempreferences, but the user, in OPAC, can change it's language 
(choose it in a list box) The selected language will be stored in a cookie.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)