[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Problems with setting up Arabic translation for Evergreen

Karen Schneider kgs at esilibrary.com
Thu Mar 5 10:53:43 EST 2009


I mean, reply to the list. Sorry. It's not even Friday yet!

Karen / Equinox

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Karen Schneider <kgs at esilibrary.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
> I've gotten evergreen to work quite well, and am trying to add an Arabic
> translation to evergreen. I followed the tutorial on http://evergreen-
> ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen-admin:customizations:i18n
> pretty much, except for that I didn't install easy_install polib the way it
> told me to, but I downloaded the tarball and then ran easy_install
> /path/to/tarball. After that I did the following from the build/i18n folder
> as
> root:
> Firstly, I ran make newpot. Then after that, I ran make LOCALE=ar-SD
> newpo. I'm not sure whether that is a correct locale, but I use it to
> specify sudanese arabic. I got several warnings (attached) from that, e.g
> "lxml is not installed", and "python-Levenhstein not found".I use poedit
> to edit several values of only on file (the opac one). Finally, I ran make
> LOCALE=ar-SD install. It warns me "pot2po :warning:writing to
> temporary output". Then it tells me "no  template at None. Skipping
> <name of file>, and finally then finishes. The only problem is that the
> file
> 950.data.seed-values.sql is empty. Running "scripts/db-seed-i18n.py --sql
> po/ar-SD/db.seed.po --locale ar-SD --output /dev/stdout " also gave me no
> output, which doesn't surprise me as I didn't edit db.seed.po, but only
> opac.dtd.po. putting this into the script yields the results I attached,
> note that the identity_value is empty.
> I would like to note that ar-SD probably isn't a valid i18n language value,
> but that I used it to specify sudanese arabic.
> If you could point me in the right directopn on what to do, I'd be very
> grateful.
>
> I attached everything that could be important, I hope I didn't attach too
> much.
> Thanks for the help in advance :)
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> Nathanael Schilling
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| Karen G. Schneider
| Community Librarian
| Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
| Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
| kgs at esilibrary.com
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| http://www.solinet.net/evergreen
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