I think we could do as Wikipedia does and they use the language codes as directory names. If Wikipedia does it shouldn't be too bad choice.
Btw, there was a post about multilingual docs with Spinx in a mailing list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00637.html Daniel 2010/9/10 Daniel Kastl <[email protected]> > I think that we should make different languages of the documents available > for any localized LiveDVD, because someone might prefer to read the English > docs even if the LiveDVD was distributed at a German conference for example. > Just the default language might be different if possible. There should be > something like a "language switcher" somewhere that one can also chose > another language of the documents. > > Daniel > > > > > > 2010/9/10 Alex Mandel <[email protected]> > > On 09/09/2010 03:38 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: >> > Cool; I see the directory structure is ready to go... >> > - https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/en >> > >> > Looks good to me; although I am a bit confused as I think that some of >> the different languages will need different themes (both the navigation and >> the OSGeo Live title can be translated). >> > >> > Jody >> >> The navigation is going to be moved into rst format and is currently >> inserted via the templates. So we might need to have a template for each >> language (just one file not the whole directory). >> >> Here are the languages currently installed on the disc (OS based not all >> apps are in these). Also open to slight modification with good reason >> (ie a local chapter), the initial choice was based on number of speakers >> in the world. These are the iso codes used to pull the language packs in >> Ubuntu. >> >> zh \ chinese >> es \ spanish >> hi \ hindi >> ar \ arabic >> bn \ Bengali >> pt \ Portuguese >> ru \ russian >> ja \ japanese >> de \ german >> pa \ Punjabi >> fr \ french >> te \ Telugu >> vi \ Vietnamese >> mr \ Marathi >> ko \ korean >> ta \ Tamil >> it \ italian >> tr \ turkish >> >> I think we can probably swap out Tamil,Telugu and Marathi for say Thai >> (th),Greek (el), and maybe another Eastern European language that we >> have more contact with. >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> Live-demo mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo >> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >> > >
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