That's what we had done in the beginning Alexei. However, for some unclear reason, it would appear that Arches selects among prefLabels across languages - so when we had all labels as prefLabels we ended up having some concepts in Arabic and some in English. I was only able to fix that by selecting altLabels instead. Any idea of why that error might have been occurring?
Andrea On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 5:40:54 PM UTC+1, Alexei Peters wrote: > > Hi Andrea, > Instead of using altLabels for the Arabic language, you should use > prefLabels. Each language can (and should) specify a prefLabel. Once you > do that the system should be able to discern the correct label. > I'll try and send another email with more detail on how to set up an end > point to switch the language. > Cheers, > Alexei > > > Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 7:43 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> 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]> 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]. To unsubscribe, >>>> send email to [email protected]. 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