Hi!
I know you guys are planning a better integration of bilingualism in the next OCS2 release, but unless you tell me it's going to be out next week, I'm looking for a quick fix. Nothing too fancy: just being able to show the announcements in the users language would do the trick.
I'm thinking of loading a different CSS file depending on the user's language. E.g., for a French user, you would have:
div.english { display: none; }
in the CSS, and vice versa. Then, in each announcement, I would use divs like:
<div class='english'>Some text in English.</div>
<div class='french'>Du texte en français.</div>
Do you think that could work? And could you point me to the PHP file where the <link rel="stylesheet" href=".../common.css" type="text/css" /> line is generated and tell me which variable to check against for the user's language?
And if you have any other suggestions, they would be more then welcome.
Merci d'avance!
Nicolas
A quick fix for bilinguism in OSC2... ?
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A quick fix for bilinguism in OSC2... ?
by nicolaspayette » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:38 pm
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Re: A quick fix for bilinguism in OSC2... ?
by asmecher » Fri Oct 05, 2007 2:48 pm
Hi nicolas,
The $currentLocale variable should be available to all templates, and it'll tell you what language the user is currently browsing with. The common header for almost all pages is templates/common/header.tpl; I'd suggest adding the CSS file there based on the value of the $currentLocale variable.
We're just finishing off OJS 2.2, which will contain vast improvements to multilingual support; after that's finished, we'll polish off the same additions for OCS 2.1, which we hope to release in December. The multilingual support already exists in CVS for OJS 2.x, but I don't think it's stable enough at the moment to use.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
The $currentLocale variable should be available to all templates, and it'll tell you what language the user is currently browsing with. The common header for almost all pages is templates/common/header.tpl; I'd suggest adding the CSS file there based on the value of the $currentLocale variable.
We're just finishing off OJS 2.2, which will contain vast improvements to multilingual support; after that's finished, we'll polish off the same additions for OCS 2.1, which we hope to release in December. The multilingual support already exists in CVS for OJS 2.x, but I don't think it's stable enough at the moment to use.
Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team
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Re: A quick fix for bilinguism in OSC2... ?
by nicolaspayette » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:38 pm
Thanks Alec.
I'll try something along these lines and keep you posted.
Nicolas
I'll try something along these lines and keep you posted.
Nicolas
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Re: A quick fix for bilinguism in OSC2... ?
by nicolaspayette » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:14 pm
I found a (very simple) way to do it without loading a different CSS file.
I added:
at the top of the <body> in header.tpl (and the corresponding </div> at the end of footer.tpl).
Then, in common.css:
Works great.
Thanks again for your help, Alec!
Nicolas
I added:
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<div id="{$currentLocale}">
at the top of the <body> in header.tpl (and the corresponding </div> at the end of footer.tpl).
Then, in common.css:
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#fr_FR .en {
display: none;
}
#en_US .fr {
display: none;
}
Works great.
Thanks again for your help, Alec!
Nicolas
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