AgendaAgendaOverview
Configuration
Language Packages
Dictionary Files
Default Tool Content
Right to Left Support
Translation Website
OverviewOverview
• Three Parts
• Language e.g. English, Chinese
• Locale e.g. Australia, US
• Page direction: LTR, RTL
• Affects
• Words, Date Formats, Page Layout
Configuration: Server Level
Configuration: Server Level
Sysadmin Menu: Configuration Settings
Need to set both the Language and Locale and the Page Direction. See lams_supported_locale database table for valid values.
Login Page always shows in Server language.
New users default to Server Language
Configuration: User Level
Configuration: User Level
Set via User Profile or User Management screens.
Applies once the user has logged in.
Select from a drop down – language, locale and page direction set automatically.
List based on the lams_supported_locale table.
Language PackagesLanguage Packages
All transations are in CVS
Only complete translations will be included in formal releases.
Languages will be release in “Language Packs”, which will contain all completed translated languages.
Dictionary FilesDictionary Files• The actual translations are
deployed in:
• Flash <jboss>/server/default/deploy/lams.ear\lams-central.war\flashxml
• Java <jboss>/server/default/deploy/lams.ear\lams-dictionary.jar
Default Tool Content
Default Tool Content
• But content in Authoring is in English!
• Then change the default tool content.
• SysAdmin menu, Edit Default Tool Content option.
• Uses same screens as authoring.
• Applies to new activities.
• Applies to whole server – can’t have an English and a Spanish version.
Translation Website
Translation Website
http://lamscommunity.org/i18n/
Community Effort
Sign up online to have your language/locale added and/or register as a translator.
Do the translations online
Translations export into CVS ready for building.
DemonstrationDemonstration
Translation Animation supplied by the Italian translators.
Italian: http://edmont.powweb.com/traduzionelams/translatorstep.htm
English: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/LAMS+i18n
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