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Language options - is it a nice feature to consider? #35

Open shenghuang opened 12 years ago

shenghuang commented 12 years ago

Currently the implementation has hard-coded English texts. For example, the title of project description is hard-coded as "Project description" and the no title warning message is hard-coded as "No description available." in project_description.jade.

As the Canadian federal government, we must support both official languages - English and French. Al our IATI data have texts in both languages. Some other countries have the same requirements.

Is there a possibility to enhance the software to support multiple languages? The default texts in English can be moved to a properties file, and we can contribute to the translated properties file of French. In this way, the software can detect browser locale then display in the selected language or in the default language (probably English) if there is no properties file for the chosen language.

I am aware of the fact that codelists of the IATI standard are English only for now. Again translated copies in other languages can be added and the standard itself does allow multiple languages for the codelists.

Please let me know whether this is a nice feature to consider.

siwhitehouse commented 12 years ago

I think this is something we should consider and CIDA's experience in doing this will be invaluable. This wasn't specified in the previous iterations of the development of AidView. I've added it in as a consideration for the next sprint.