[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Fixed-field elements mnemonic names translations

[Mike Rylander]

Hi Eva,

In short, no, you can't do that today because those strings are used
to fetch values from the server.  However, I've pushed a branch to
http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/Evergreen.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/miker/translate-fixed-field-labels
that will allow you to translate the display labels.

If you want to open a Launchpad wishlist bug for this, I'll update my
branch and link it there.

Thanks,

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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Cerninakova Eva <cernin at jabok.cz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I have a question about translation of fixed-field elements mnemonic names
> (like BLvl, DtSt, Audn etc, see
> https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/fixedfield.html.) used in Evergreen in
> the fixed field grid. We have not translated the mnemonic names to Czech yet
> (and as far as a know, neither they have  been  translated to some of
> supported Evergreen languages). However,  it turned out eventually,  that
> the using of English mnemonic names is not very practical for Czech
> catalogers. That is why we would like to translate them to Czech now. At
> this point two practical question came up:
>
> 1. Must translation necessarily consist of only  four characters, as the
> original mnemonic names mostly do? Or would it be possible use to use more
> characters for translation, possibly from six to eight (e.g. Ctry translate
> as ZemVyd, or GPub translate as VladPub) without causing a crush of the fix
> field grid interface?
>
> 2. Is it safe to use a special Czech characters (extended ASCII characters
> like ž, š, č, ř ...) for mnemonic names translation? Or could i cause a
> problem?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for an answer
>
> Eva
>
>
>
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