i18n, l10n how to?

[vigo]

hi, i love octopress and i would like to create my blog in Turkish. How can i fix Date information? I'm not a Ruby developer. Is there any way to do this? Different day names, month names, abbr. etc... Also, maybe some i18n feature would be great. Thanks

[imathis]

I'm not sure what your date format is like, but you should be able to make a change in your _config.yml on line 16.

You'll want to reference Ruby's documentation on date formats.

When you refer to i18n features, what specifically would you like? I'm a native English speaker so I'm not as in tune to the challenges of blogging in other languages.

[vigo]

hi, thanks for reply. the thing is, i want to see dates in Turkish. December 2011 should be "Aralık 2011". All the month names and their abbr. a simple example: DEC 18TH, 2011 must be at least "18 ARA 2011". changing placements are ok with date formatting but month/day names and abbr. are not possible. I really loved Octopress and I want to migrate my all sites / blogs. All i need is to fix month/day names. I'm python developer and not good in Ruby. If Ruby does not supports locales, maybe a dictionary hash, english word: users_word style solution?

[imathis]

I'm actually not sure how to localize dates with Ruby. I'm asking on Twitter. I will find a way :)

[vigo]

Thank you. I'm soo excited.

[ahmet]

Wondering how could it be done, too :)

[imathis]

I've gotten some responses on twitter, so far nothing compelling. Still on the hunt.

[vigo]

Can anyone override Date class? I tried via irb:

require 'Date'
Date::MONTHNAMES
# => [nil, "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"]
Date::ABBR_DAYNAMES
# => ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"]
Date::ABBR_MONTHNAMES
# => [nil, "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]

I don't now how to integrate this to Octopress...

[krisbulman]

This may help: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html & https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/tree/master/rails/locale

Turkish locale

https://github.com/svenfuchs/rails-i18n/blob/master/rails/locale/tr.yml

[vigo]

@krisbulman i'm not a ruby programmer or ror developer. how can i integrate this to octopress? can you help me out please?

[krisbulman]

sorry, wish i were able to help further, but I'm not sure how to proceed.

[vigo]

i forked and managed to create octopress-tr edition. fixed date function by my style (: i wish i had enough knowledge to implement i18n feature.