Re: [Jmol-developers] hard work on french translation

[Nicolas V. <nve...@cl...>]

So, do we go for this solution ?

If it's a go, I can do all the modifications in Jmol-web.

Nicolas.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Leidert" <dan...@gm...>
To: "jmol-dev" <jmo...@li...>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 2:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Jmol-developers] hard work on french translation


> Am Sonntag, den 09.01.2005, 18:26 +0100 schrieb Nicolas Vervelle:
> > Thanks for the access Miguel.
> >
> > I created a few files to test different solutions :
> > jmol.sourceforge.net/testi18n : contains .htaccess, index.html,
> > index.en.html, index.fr.html
> > jmol.sourceforge.net/testi18n/test_1 : contains index.en.html,
index.fr.html
> > jmol.sourceforge.net/testi18n/test_2 : contains index.html,
index.fr.html
> >
> > The results I have with IE 6 under w2k :
> > configured to accept French (default setting) : works
> > configured to accept French (preferred) and English : works.
> > configured to accept English (preferred) and French : works except for
> > test_2 where I get the french version.
> > configured to accept Deutch : works (default version = english version)
> >
> > Could someone try other configurations (browser, os, language) ? If you
> > change your language settings to test, think of updating the cach (for
> > example, IE doesn't reload its cache when language settings are
modified)
>
> It works. There is no need to try all browsers, because this is work
> done by the server. The browser is only sending the language code. And
> if the browser is not able to send the "right" language code, we will
> preserve usability with a little link to the right language (see my last
> note).
>
> > So the content negociation seems to work.
> > If we want to use it on the Jmol web site, I think we need to :
> > - Add the .htaccess file at the root of the website
>
> Right.
>
> > - Generate english files as index.en.html files instead of index.html
> > (otherwise, if you have configured English (preferred) and French, you
will
> > get French), at least when we want to translate the file in an other
> > language.
>
> Right.
>
> > - Generate french files as index.fr.html files in the same directory as
the
> > english files
>
> Right.
>
> > Before doing, we must be sure that all links to the website are using
only
> > the directory name.
>
> There is one more thing:
>
> Every site should contain a link to other available languages, i.e.: an
> English site should contain a link to the related French site and same
> for the French site (e.g. use the little flags from the awstats package,
> then use a title="" for the link-tag and alt="" for the image. The title
> tag should be written in the same language as the linked site, e.g.: if
> you link from an English site to a French one, then write this tag in
> French. IMHO this could be easily done be creating only 2 xml files (one
> for French and one for English) and then include the related xml file as
> an entitiy (because, it will be always the same link: index.{en|
> fr}.html).

This xml file already exists in the source code : project.xml and
project_fr.xml.
We just have to had links to other langages.
I think a links.xml file (or other name) containing links for all available
langages should suffice : it will be included in each project*.xml file.