Hi Ruth :) This will be very very, very cool. Thank you so much.
Take good care, arslan > I've had occasion recently to look this problem over, despite not being a > speaker of any right-to-left languages, and there are two major parts of > the problem here: > > 1) String translation (which Koha handles with Pootle) > 2) Layout translation (things flushing right instead of left, table column > order, and so on). > > Koha handles the string-translation part very well, *if* the translation > team has done that work; many translations remain only partial, so there > are still lots of English words appearing on the pages. Naturally, anyone > bilingual who wants to help Koha grow should be encouraged to participate > (at http://translate.koha-community.org) in getting the strings > translated! > > The layout-translation? Not so much. The code automatically inserts > 'dir="rtl"' in the html tag at the page header, for languages so > designated, but the default CSS still contains many 'float: left' and > 'text-align: left' directives, which causes the pages to look very strange > for right-to-left readers. It is that problem I've been looking into, and > I believe I have a solution in the works; it is functioning on my OPAC test > server on my laptop, with English and Arabic installed, and behaving the > way I would expect it to. > > My solution has four requirements: > 1) It cannot disrupt left-to-right pages; if a library has both English > and Arabic as choices, both need to work. > 2) It should be generalized, so that any RTL language can use it. > 3) It should be semi-automatic; at most, a system-preference needs to be > set to make it work. > 4) It should *not* be a complete new set of templates, which would make > upkeep a bigger problem. > > The approach I'm testing right now meets all four of these requirements; > you just translate the templates with the script at > misc/translator/translate, as you do now, and enable the language in the > system preferences, as you do now, and it Just Works. There is still some > CSS tweaking and testing to be done, and the task of extending the solution > into the staff client, but I'm on it. > > After I finish this patch, hopefully in the next week or two, I will be > releasing it for the community; it should easily apply to 3.6.x, 3.8.x, and > master. > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
