[Xerte] Re: Language

[Tom Reijnders]

Regarding Google translate.

My experience is, that it's really a usefull tool to use to understand a 
bit of foreign text like Norwegian but it is not good enough foor these 
kinds of things.

I like your proposal. And yes, it will be quite some work to create a 
multi-language quiz for example, but is neat and tidy and a lot simpler 
than having seperate Learbing objects flying around (one for each language).



Op 9-5-2011 15:06, Julian Tenney schreef:
> 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.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: 08 May 2011 21:17
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> 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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