Thank you Alexei. As it happens, I had already,and successfully, set up an Arabic translation of all of the static strings (the ones read by Django's gettext). This works fine, though I am not too happy with having Django automatically select a language based on Middleware: I'd much rather be able to switch languages at will by using the language dropdown in the header.
The major issue is how to get the app to display the alternative Arabic labels that we entered in the RDM for each node and concept. Once I set up my custom context processor to loop through the languages in the header, the two languages will display correctly of course, but that won't be enough unless I build the language dropdown within a form that, when posted, leads the app to switch from prefLabels in en_US to altLabels in ar. *This* is the point on which I would really welcome your input. Have you already written some code to manipulate label visualisation? Best, Andrea On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 10:15:13 PM UTC+1, Alexei Peters wrote: > > Hi Andrea, > You'll actually have to do several things to present the site in another > language. > > 1. You'll have to add supply your own version of the > template/header.htm file and as you mentioned loop through the languages > provided by the system. To do that you'll probably want to add a context > processor that get's the language information from the database. See > arches/app/utils/context_processors.py for examples. Once you've created > that, then add a reference to it in the TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS > section > of settings.py. Once you've done this you should be able to access the > languages from your new header.htm template. > 2. In settings.py go to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES and uncomment the line: > 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware' > 3. Read the section entitled "How Django discovers language > preference" in the reference documentation found here: > https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/django/1.6.x/django.pdf . There are > several ways to set the language, but the easiest might be to set a cookie. > > Once you've done those things you should be well on your way to displaying > your site in Arabic. > Chees, > Alexei > > > Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:12 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I am not sure I explained myself correctly Adam. Let me try again: we >> have translated our entire platform in Arabic, including both the static >> strings which Django reads via the .mo file and our nodes and concepts. The >> translations for the latter two have been entered via the RDM as altLabels >> selecting Arabic as a language. Arabic had been previously added as a >> language via the Django admin panel (Models -> d_languages). >> >> Now, what I want to do is to be able to select the appropriate app >> language in the header dropdown so that, when I select Arabic, I get the >> whole app to be shown in Arabic. Do I have to write this whole class from >> scratch? Or does something exist already to support multilingual apps? >> >> Andrea >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 10:38:48 PM UTC+1, Adam Cox wrote: >>> >>> Hi Andrea, technically this is possible, but I don't think it would do >>> what you are hoping... The Languages dropdown is meant to be configured to >>> allow the user to change the app's interface language, while the language >>> concepts are only meant to be attributes for a resource (the language that >>> an Information Resource is written in, for example). >>> >>> Adam >>> >>> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 12:59:08 AM UTC-6, [email protected] >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I am in need to change the static 'Languages' dropdown menu in the >>>> header.htm template to a dynamic one looping through the list of languages >>>> in the concepts.d_languages table. Has someone already written this code ? >>>> I couldn't figure out how to read the language table via Django tags. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Andrea >>>> >>> -- >> -- To post, send email to [email protected] <javascript:>. To >> unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more information, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Arches Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
