[Xerte] Re: Language

[Julian Tenney]

The way to do it would be 

- have the interface set a language in a variable, say, currentLanguage, which defaults to English
- Have a language drop down somewhere for user selection to set the variable
- Have that get the list of supported languages from the xwd file
- use that variable to fish out the relevant language i.e. learningObject.languages[currentLanguage].greeting
- include the language info in the xml o as to be fishable for each apge tye? Or globally? I think I'd probzbly do it for each page type, then it will be in the data along with learningObject.gapFill[0].languages[0][currentLanguage].greeting

<gapFill blah...>
	<languages>
		<English>
			<greeting>Hello World

etc
	

Or something like that. You could play around by just setting a 'currentLanguage' variable and using that to get data out of the xml.

Did you want to explore using google translate instead and automate the whole thing? That would be an interesting experiment, but I don't think it would always give an acceptable translation.



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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 08 May 2011 21:17
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Language

Agreed...., that's why I am very interested in the suggestions discussed 
by Jonathan and Julian.

I also would like to have multi language support in the mainstream 
Xerte. Otherwise, it can/will become a maintenance nightmare....

Tom

Op 8-5-2011 21:23, Pat Lockley schreef:
> On 08/05/2011 20:17, Inge Donkervoort wrote:
>> I've made a Dutch translation of the page-template of the stand alone 
>> version of Xerte. With a bit of effort you can use this in XOT. I'm 
>> working on a translation of the media-template as well.
>>
>> Please note that this translation will enable you to create Dutch 
>> learning objects. The wizard is still in English.
>>
>> Let me know if you are interested.
>>
>> Inge Donkervoort
>
> My only worry about Internationalisation is the effect on Notts as the 
> main developers?
>
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