Hi,
A. I’m not sure who to tell about this, but I’ve created a
localization file in Romanian, and I’d like to make it available for
inclusion in the next release. Will an administrator tell me where to
send my lang/ro_RO.rb please? 
Incidentally, I’ve also fixed a few other files whose strings weren’t
localized. At the time I’m writing this mail, they are:
vendor/plugins/xml_sidebar/views/content.rhtml
vendor/plugins/category_sidebar/views/content.rhtml
app/helpers/articles_helper.rb
views/shared/_search.rhtml
I’ll keep on patching them. If anyone’s interested, I can make them
available too.
B. Another thing which is, in my opinion, not very nice is that there
are some Javascript strings which can’t easily be localized using the
_() notation. Among others, that’s why you’ll always see “x hours
ago” in English, regardless of your configured language.
To fix this, I’ve done the following 5 steps:
-
Patched localization.rb by adding:
def self.all_keys
@@l10s[lang].keys
end -
Added a method in articles_controller.rb:
def localized_jsWe only retrieve translations which have to do with the
Javascript strings; we don’t want to overload the browser.
js_content = Localization.all_keys.collect { |key| if key =~ /
^js_(.+)/ ; $1 end }.compact
render :content_type => 'text/javascript', :text => 'var
LocalizedStrings = {’ +
js_content.collect { |key| lkey=“js_#{key}”; “”#{key}" :
“#{_(lkey)}”" }.join(’, ') +
‘}
String.prototype.localize = function() {
var s;
if(LocalizedStrings && (s=LocalizedStrings[this]) )
return s;
return this;
}’
end
- Added a line in the default.rhtml of the active theme (maybe
there’s a better place for this, but I couldn’t find it yet):
<script src="/articles/localized_js"
type=“text/javascript”>
-
Added translations in the file like this:
l.store ‘js_hours’, ‘ore’ -
In all Javascript code, I replaced strings like this:
Before: “hours”
After: “js_hours”.localize()
C. In Romanian (and other languages), words used to express time
difference from now (like ‘ago’ and ‘from now’) prepend the numeral,
contrary to the English rules. That is why I also had to change some
logic in the function get_local_time_for_date() (file typo.js) and
translate ‘ago’ and ‘from now’ as the empty string.
That’s it for now. Sorry for sending all this in an email. If an
admin feels I should be submitting these as patches, please tell me
how. I’ve only been using Typo for a few hours. Thanks!
Alex D.
Indigenious Development
www.indigenious.ro