[opencms-dev] Contribution on Workplace translation for Farsi (Persian, Iranian) language, feedback opencms 6.0 alpha installation

Fri Mar 5 11:49:01 CET 2004

I have now uploaded the Farsi localization module to opencms.org. You find
it under "Download" -> "Localizations".

Can you please post some more tips how to enable left-to-right languages in
OpenCms 5.0 to the list? This is obviously important for all arabic
languages in general. 

Regarding left-to-right support in OpenCms 6.0: We will have a WYSIWYG
editor that supports left-to-right, but so far have not thought about the
workplace itself. So help left-to-right support for the 6.0 workplace is
much appreciated.

The OpenCms 6.0 workplace will build on the localizaitons of OpenCms 5.0,
but will also require many new keys because many new things have been added.
However, the mechanism will stay the same, as will the localization module.
The Alkacon documentation base module requires some adjustments for OpenCms
6 so it won't run yet, but I can provide an adjusted base module and
localization module for 6 per email to everyone interested.

Best Regards,
Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com <http://www.alkacon.com/>  

-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Arash Kaffamanesh
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:33 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Contribution on Workplace translation for Farsi
(Persian, Iranian) language, feedback opencms 6.0 alpha installation

Alex,

Please recieve attached the first version of the Workplace localization in
persian, which is not yet complete.
I hope I will be done by the work in two weeks, till mid of this month.
I'm working on a howto for right to left settings for the workplace (the
settings required in main.css of my opencms modul, are only the DIRECTION =
"RTL" attribute in {body ...} and {P .. } and {title .. } elements). I do
had done some experiments with the format.css of the whole ocms system and
set the DIRECTION attribute to RTL, the whole system was mirrored to right
to left, so that the german and english versions where affected too, they
became funny. I do think it must be possible to do it optional (?). Since
the new version will support the rtl direction, I won't do additional work
for the 5.x workplace. The current version works fine with some little
tricks and / or using other persian editors and the copy and paste to the
ocms wysiwyg editor.

I do am working and dealing with some guys in US and Iran on a persian /
finglish editor as a java applet (finglish stands for english to farsi or
farsi to english). You can type on english keybord and the text will be
mapped to pesrian chars :-). We do hope we will be done till mid of this
year and could provide it as OpenSource under LGPL License.

Additionaly I have made some help files available for setting up windows,
linux os and IE, Mozzilla and Netscape browsers to support Farsi, which I
will include too into the module later.

Feedback 6.0 alpha Installation:

I do have installed today the opencms 6.0 alpha1 version on my dev mashine,
it was realy great, no problems, it looks pretty nice and powerful, thanks
for your great work (jvm 1.4.1, MYSQL 4, win2000, tomcat 4.1.27). I imported
the workplace localization into the system (and could guess it won't work),
but under the preferences I can select "ir" as language, it seems that the
value of the language is the country code extension (in my case ir) of the
module (org.opencms.locales.ir_1.0.zip). How different are the keys between
workplace_cc.properties (cc: country code) of the 5.x and 6.0 version of
ocms? I do ask this because I'm going to translate and write some small
tutorials and howto's in the Persian language and would like to do it for
the upcoming version 6.0 of ocms, so that the work shall not be done twice.
Can I do the translation work in parallel for the new version of ocms too?
If yes, how? Would the import mechanism for the localization modules be so
easy as the same as by 5.x version? or more easier :-) Is it possible to
have a look on the new workplace_cc.properties of the alpha version at this
time?

Thanks again to you and the whole group for your great work and your help

sunny  regards from Berlin

Arash

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-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]
On Behalf Of Alexander Kandzior
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 9:40 PM
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: RE: [opencms-dev] Contribution on Workplace translation for Farsi
(Persian, Iranian) language, or Arabic, Hebrew

Arash,

post your translation to me (or on this list). I will put the up to the
other localizations available on opencms.org.

Regarding changes to the editor for left-to-right languages: If you make any
progess on this please contribute your patches so that I can include them in
OpenCms 6.0. To place the cursor on the right by default in OpenCms 5.0
patching the editor HTML is required. The 5.0 editor HTML is pretty mixed up
(grown over too many years...) but with the plugin API in 6.0 it will become
easy to use a left-to-right editor by default.

Kölle Alaaf (just a week too late ;-)

Alex.

Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Arash Kaffamanesh
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 4:29 PM
> To: contributions at opencms.org; opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: [opencms-dev] Contribution on Workplace translation
> for Farsi (Persian, Iranian) language, or Arabic, Hebrew
>
>
> Hi Dear All,
>
> I do have done a first translation of the workplace into the Farsi
> (Persian, Iranian) language. I do have translated the Kölsch
> workplace.properties completely plus the context.x properties into
> persian and is not yet complete (I like Kölsch and beside trinking
> Kölsch I use it as the default language of my opencms workplace ;-)).
>
> Is there anybody who works on such translation of the workplace and
> /or Online Help? Or in the Hebrew or Arabic which are both Right to
> Left oriented. I would like to discuss the problems and the possible
> Solutions with them. If not I'll go on with the work myself in the
> next weekends.
>
> To whom can / shall I post the first version?
>
> May be someone in Iran, Afganistan, or where else in the world has
> some interesst to support this Contribution and work on the problems
> with Right to left and bi-directional support(inline problem) in the
> WYSIWYG editor or plug another editor within the upcoming version 6.0
> of OpenCMS.
>
> Who knows:
> Is there any way to define a property for the current WYSIWYG editor,
> so that after entering to it, the courser position can be set to the
> right side as default?
>
> Awaiting Your feedback
> Best Regards and thanks in advance
> Arash
>
> arash at pomegranate.de
> www.pomegranate.de
> The COCO's (Collaboration Consultants)
>
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