[Koha-devel] Farsi/Dari translation for Koha

[Han, Yan]

We almost completed the koha interface into Farsi/Dari. see
http://kohadev.library.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl
 
Server Env.: Koha is running on Linux RedHat 4, MySQL 4.2, and Apache 2.
Translation Env.: Windows XP + Farsi input method
 
Here is what we have to do 
 
1. I copies npl directory under opac-tmpl into a new folder afghan
2. change charset=ISO-8859-1 to charset=utf-8 for all the files (.inc)
3. change to 

"<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fa" />"

4. system parameter setup. change opac theme to afghan (see no.1)
5. during translation, I have to use two editors 
    5a. I use seamonkey so that I can have my student enter Farsi/Dari
in Windows 
    5b. I then use UltraEdit to copy the code for these Farsi/Dari
characters. 
    
Discussion: 
a) I did try to use seamonkey for editing, but it does not work.
Seamonkey reformatted some of the Perl tmpl files, and substitue
automatically some tags in URL encoded method. (for example, %3c ==> < ,
%21 ==> ! , %20 ==>[space]). However, Seamonkey allows to enter farsi in
its interface.
 
b) I also try to use UltraEdit  for editing, but it could not do the job
because my student cannot enter Farsi/Dari in UltraEdit current
interface. Using the interface, the Farsi/Dari characters are entered
from left-to-right, which is not correct.  I contacted UltraEdit support
and at this moment, it does not switch the mode (in English
"left-to-right" to Farsi's "Right-to-Left"). It seems that we cannot
have beauty of both editors. 
 
Note: in Word, there is an option that you can switch the mode from
"Left-to-Right" to "Right-to-Left". 
We also tried other editors in Windows such as Wordpad, Textpad.  I did
not use Linux editors (e.g. emacs) because I am not aware of Farsi input
method in Linux env. 
 
c) Maybe there is a better editor that can make it easier for the
translator, but so far I did not find it.
 
Yan Han
The University of Arizona Libraries
 
 

 

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