Hello Filippos, I am glad you found our suggested method useful and can be implemented.
Thanks, Nassoud. Sent from my iPhone > On 7 May 2019, at 12:40 PM, Filippos Kolovos <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Massoud thank you very much for your quick reply. > > I understand. I also come to this conclusion, although based on this post > work has already been carried out in the core engine of DSpace, which I > verified from a look in the database (i.e. the Community/collection names are > stored as metadata in the metadatavalue and not in the community table as it > was before). > > However, I also could not find a way to “configure” the system to use (either > via the Messages.properties file, or via another way) alternative > translations for a community/collection name. I guess an update to the > metadatavalue table with the “text_lang” column set to the corresponding > locale for the same dspace object (e.g. the community name), but in different > language would do the job(?). > > Nevertheless, he solution you are proposing it is indeed a very clever one, > easy to implement and I bump my head on the table, why on earth couldn’t I > think of it for so long, but going to solutions such as changing the database > schema, the core code, etc. > > Thank you very much and I will surely implement it. > > Best Regards, > > -Fk > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ????? ???? ?????? > Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 12:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [dspace-community] Localization of Community and Collection > Names Dspace 6.3 > > Hello Filippos, > > > To my knowledge, DSpace is structured to support a single language > user-defined policies only, including communities and collections names. This > is the case for all DSpace versions, including unfortunately DSpace 7 as I > was informed. > > > The work around such bilingually limited architecture is to use a separator > between the two text, names and description of the communities, collections, > groups, and any other element that is not part of the item record fields > intended to be sorted or made for hybrid search. > > > Take a look to our implementation of the Arabic/ English DSpace with > bilingual communities/ collections UX. > > > http://repository.taibahu.edu.sa/en/ > > From the language icon on top of the screen, Select العربية (to mean Arabic) > and you will see the names of communities and collections displayed in > Arabic. > > This work needs writing a simple extra code to watch over these fields > searching for the “|” character in the text to make sure that only the > English part of the text is displayed while in English mode (RTL) and only > the Arabic part if the text (expected to the to be the text to the left of > the | separator) is displayed while in Arabic mode (RTL). > > I you find this helpful. > > Thanks, > Massoud AlShareef > KnowledgeWare > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 6 May 2019, at 12:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Filippos > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of > Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of > Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "DSpace Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/007501d504b8%24f0e3eb60%24d2abc220%24%40gr. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the DuraSpace Code of Conduct: https://duraspace.org/about/policies/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/1A034A4A-2C4F-45C9-9F5B-33F57A4871A5%40kwareict.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
