[Koha-patches] [PATCH] Use Google Indic Transliteration API to allow users to transliterate english typed words into Indic languages.

[savitra sirohi]

Galen, thanks, will send a new patch with changes you have suggested.

There is another problem I need to fix - When the system preference is set
to on, the feature should be available in the OPAC, but transliteration
should be disabled by default. User can enable it by using 'ctrl+g'.

Thanks,
Savitra

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Galen Charlton
<galen.charlton at liblime.com>wrote:

> Hi Savitra,
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:37 AM, savitra.sirohi
> <savitra.sirohi at osslabs.biz> wrote:
> > This is available only on the masthead search box in the OPAC.
> >
> > User has to enter a word in english and press space or return to
> transliterate the word. The destination language can be selected from a drop
> down list. User can temporarily turn on/off the feature by using "ctrl +g".
> >
> > A system preference - GoogleIndicTransliteration can be used to turn on
> this feature.
>
> Thanks.  I've pushed this patch along with a followup by me to tweak
> the default size of the OPAC search input box.  There are some things
> you could do to follow and improve this feature:
>
> [1] The GoogleIndicTransliteration system preference should be added
> to the installer and update database scripts.  Since the Google
> transliteration API supports at least one non-Indic language (Arabic)
> and may be extended in the future, a better name for the system
> preference would be GoogleTransliteration.
>
> [2] Along those same lines, it would be good if the list of languages
> used by the transliteration system were set in a system preference
> instead of being hardcoded in googleindictransliteration.js.
>
> [3] Finally, since a number of OPAC scripts can display the search
> box, rather than setting the GoogleIndicTransliteration template
> variable in individual scripts, it would be better to set it for all
> OPAC scripts by editing get_template_and_user() in C4/Auth.pm.
>
> Thanks again for the patch.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
> --
> Galen Charlton
> VP, Research & Development, LibLime
> galen.charlton at liblime.com
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>
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