GnuCash website missing zh_CN locale?

[Derek Atkins]

Thanks, Linas

Yes, we should probably remove the links to the non-translated
languages.

-derek

Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas at gmail.com> writes:

> I've installed zh_CN and similar locales; the simplified chinese page
> displays fine for me.
>
> BTW, we should probably remove the links to the Spanish,
> Norweigian and Portuguese sites, as these seem not to have
> any translations at all, as far as I can tell ... !?
>
> --linas
>
> On 4 May 2010 11:22, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Linas,
>>
>> It looks like www.gnucash.org doesn't have the zh_CN locale installed.
>> Could you install it?  (I'm not 100% sure how, but if you come to IRC
>> I'm sure someone could help you).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> To: Tao Wang <dancefire at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>,  gnucash-devel at gnucash.org
>> Subject: Re: I have translated the GnuCash website to zh_CN.
>>
>> Tao Wang <dancefire at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Geert Janssens
>>> <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 1 May 2010, Tao Wang wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have translated GnuCash website to zh_CN. Could you commit it?
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Tao,
>>>>
>>>> I have added your translation to the website, but it doesn't seem to work when
>>>> I test it on my system. Does it work for you ?
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps one of the devs with access to the server logs could check if the
>>>> translations cause some error.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, it doesn't work for me.
>>>
>>> I check the info.php on the server, which contains a list of "locale
>>> -a". I found server doesn't support "zh_CN", I think this might be the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> For Japanese, the debug info on the first line is:
>>> <!-- ja_JP , locale_res [ja_JP] , dir_res /home/gnucash/www/gnucash -->
>>> But, for Chinese, it's:
>>> <!-- zh_CN , locale_res [] , dir_res /home/gnucash/www/gnucash -->
>>> which locale_res is empty.
>>>
>>>>> And for website, since it's PHP-based website, Could you add a short
>>>>> code to automatically detect user's language? I think the information
>>>>> should contained in the users request. If the user language detected,
>>>>> and the language is available for the website, then just redirect user
>>>>> to their language automatically. Thanks.
>>>>>
>>>> This is a useful idea. I may have a look at this later.
>>>>
>>>> Geert
>>>>
>>>
>>> I write a code to automatically detect user's language and assign
>>> $locale and $lang_dir
>>> =============================
>>> # key: locale, value: lang_dir
>>> $supported_languages = array(
>>>       'de_DE' => 'de', 'es_ES' => 'es', 'fr_FR' => 'fr',
>>>       'it_IT' => 'it', 'ja_JP' => 'ja', 'nb_NO' => 'nb',
>>>       'nl_NL' => 'nl', 'pl_PL' => 'pl', 'pt_PT' => 'pt_PT',
>>>       'zh_CN' => 'zh_CN', 'en_US' => ''
>>>       );
>>>
>>> if ($locale == "") {
>>>       # Get user prefered languages, and match agasint supported language
>>>       if ( isset( $_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"] ) )
>>>       {
>>>               # tolower() => remove space => '-' -> '_'
>>>               # "fr-ch;q=0.3, en, zh-cn;q=0.7" => "fr_ch;q=0.3,en,zh_cn;q=0.7"
>>>               $languages = str_replace('-','_', str_replace(' ', '',
>>> str_strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'])));
>>>               $languages = explode(",", $languages);
>>>               foreach ($languages as $item)
>>>               {
>>>                       # "zh_cn;q=0.7" => "zh_cn"
>>>                       $lang = substr($item, 0, strcspn($item, ';'));
>>>                       $lang_short = substr($lang, 0, 2);
>>>                       # full match is prefer, but short match is acceptable.
>>>                       foreach ($supported_languages as $loc_lang => $loc_dir)
>>>                       {
>>>                               if ($lang == str_strtolower($loc_lang)) { $locale = $loc_lang; break; }
>>>                               if ($lang_short == substr($loc_lang, 0, 2 )) { $locale = $loc_lang; }
>>>                       }
>>>                       if ($locale != "") { break; }
>>>               }
>>>       }
>>>       # nothing matched, use default language
>>>       if ($locale == "") { $locale = "en_US"; }
>>>       $lang_dir = $supported_language[$locale];
>>> }
>>> =================================
>>>
>>> The only problem is the code cannot distinguish "automatic" and
>>> "English". Because, based on current structure, English page is same
>>> as http://www.gnucash.org/, rather than http://www.gnucash.org/en/.
>>> So, visit http://www.gnucash.org, the language should be automatically
>>> detected, and when user click [English], and really want English, but
>>> since the link is same, the code will automatically detected the
>>> language again. If English page moved to /en, just like other
>>> language, I think the problem will be fixed.
>>>
>>> And one more question, why not use parameter for different language?
>>> such as http://www.gnucash.org/index.phtml?lang=zh_CN. So that
>>> sub-directories for different languages is not necessary anymore. Only
>>> one set files is required.
>>>
>>> I also found the <meta> for charset is missing, the following line
>>> should put in <head>, and before <title></title>:
>>>
>>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
>>
>> --
>>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>>       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
>>
>
>

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available