[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Support for Arabic language

[Cerninakova Eva]

Hi

thanks a lot for the information about XUL staff client - it sounds really
promising :-) .

I hope the situation with the TPAC and web staff client will be equally
optimistic. In any case I  would really appreciate any further information
on the Evergreen and Arabic, RTL etc.


Eva






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Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková
cernin at jabok.cz
Tel. +420 211 222 409

Knihovna Jabok
http:/knihovna.jabok.cz
Tel.  +420 211 222 410

Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická
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2016-10-24 18:12 GMT+02:00 Ben Shum <ben at evergreener.net>:

> Hi Eva,
>
> I know that in the XUL staff client, if one were to select a
> right-to-left language, like Arabic or Hebrew (which are options), it
> will change the direction of the client view to appear like it would
> work from right to left.  Without too many translated strings or users
> though, I am unsure how it would behave with the actual working
> interfaces.  I imagine there's work to be done.
>
> And for the web catalog or web staff client, this is also largely unknown
> to me.
>
> -- Ben
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Cerninakova Eva <cernin at jabok.cz> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had been  contacted by translator from Jordan who is member of the team
> > currently translating Evergreen to Arabic. The translators had a few
> > questions - one of them was whether Evergreen is capable of dealing with
> > Arabic.
> >
> > I am sure there should not be problem to display Arabic characters in
> > Evergreen. However  I have some question about support for Arabic
> Language
> > too:
> >
> > 1) Is there a support  for  left to right  writing in Evergreen?
> > According to a  few informations founded in general Evergreen mailing
> list,
> > information in  dokuwiki  (probably not very up-to-dated)  and my very
> > limited knowledge of Evergreen -  I am quite positive the RTL  is
> currently
> > not supported in Evergreen.
> >
> > I suppose the support for RTL would include:
> >
> >     RTL dir attribute in html tag in web pages
> >     RTL support in CSS
> >     Possibility to switch the LTR  to RTL  when user switch from English
> to
> > Arabic language and vice versa in all parts of the interface including
> print
> > outputs, notifications etc.
> >     What else?
> >
> > The translating team have already some experiences in translating  SliMS
> ILS
> > and PMB ILS to Arabic before and they are  capable of creating style
> > templates for OPAC but they will probably need some help from the
> community
> > e.g., with the questions how enable the proper style sheet according to
> > language selected (RTL for Arabic, LTR for others). I
> >
> > 2)  Does Evergreen currently include support for Arabic? According to the
> > conclusions of the discussion in the general mailing list, which was
> held in
> > June this year
> > (https://www.mail-archive.com/open-ils-general@list.
> georgialibraries.org/msg12491.html),
> > I am not sure of it. In every case as Arabic is quite trickier than LTR
> > languages, it would be excellent if  support for Arabic language and
> > localization had a high priority in following  Evergreen releases in
> order
> > to test the Arabic as quickly as possible.
> >
> >
> > Thank in advance for the information
> >
> > Eva
> >
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> > ---
> > Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková
> > cernin at jabok.cz
> > Tel. +420 211 222 409
> >
> > Knihovna Jabok
> > http:/knihovna.jabok.cz
> > Tel.  +420 211 222 410
> >
> > Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická
> > Salmovská 8, 120 00 Praha 2
> >
>
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