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The Internet Archive BookReader
https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
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i18n #2

Closed yankl closed 13 years ago

yankl commented 14 years ago

It would be great if the text that is output (e.g., tooltips for the buttons, zoom levels) could be changed without having to go into the BookReader.js file.

Also, there could be support for the reader to be in a right-to-left language. This would involve just a few changes in the css file and BookReader.js to adjust the order of the buttons and text at the top. Also, the graphic for the play button could be switched.

rajbot commented 14 years ago

The bookreader already does support right-to-left language books. For example, you can view many books from the National Yiddish Book Center here: http://www.archive.org/details/nybc200109

We still need to work on other internationalization issues..

mangtronix commented 14 years ago

We'd like to have the UI text be easy to change/internationalize. Do you know any good examples of doing that? Ideally all the UI text could be loaded from e.g. a JSON file that is selected based off the desired locale.

rajbot commented 13 years ago

Patch from yankl has been integrated: https://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader/commit/ba9df9aebf33c72c78892ab2dcc9e43d8f2f7b45