[Piwik-trac] [Piwik] #251: Finish the work: polishing internationalization of Piwik (i18n)

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#251: Finish the work: polishing internationalization of Piwik (i18n)
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  Reporter:  matt   |       Owner:              
      Type:  Bug    |      Status:  new         
  Priority:  major  |   Milestone:  DigitalVibes
 Component:  Core   |     Version:              
Resolution:         |    Keywords:              
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Changes (by matt):

  * milestone:  Stable release => DigitalVibes

Old description:

> i18n is the result of the great work of several people:
>  * mauser implementing i18n in Piwik.
>  * Noah managing all the translators & reviewers
>  * all the translators (more than 50 contributors!!)
>
> '''We still have some work to make it perfect'''
>  * '''review the english strings'''
>  We haven't really done a proper review of the existing english
> translation on which every new translation is based. Some texts are not
> clear, too verbose, or not verbose enough.
>
>  * '''add english plugins description for each plugin'''
>
>  * '''column label translations'''
>  The column label translations are on a per plugin basis. example: the
> Label column can either be "Action" or "Country". Currently some general
> column renaming are done in modules/ViewDataTable/Html.php but we should
> do this for every datatable that requires a custom label name (most of
> them do)
>
>  * '''graph translations''' (see related ticket #84)
>  it seems the graph API is not stable yet, maybe we can wait to have a
> more stable API / features set to think about it
>
>  * '''main menu'''
>  The Menu.php is terrible, I'm ashamed. We shall rewrite it using proper
> logic and nicer code. And make it translatable.
>
>  * '''support for right to left languages'''
>   * add conditional css style that will overload text classes/ids
>     * direction: rtl
>     * text-align: right (when original is left)
>     * add definition in translation file indicating what kind of langauge
> we load (rtl,ltr)
>   *
> [http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/browser/dijit/trunk/themes/tundra/tundra_rtl.css?rev=11656
> Example of a custom RTL CSS]
>

> Please, if you have any other point you want to be fixed concerning i18n,
> post a comment

New description:

 i18n is the result of the great work of several people:
  * mauser implementing i18n in Piwik.
  * Noah managing all the translators & reviewers
  * all the translators (more than 50 contributors!!)

 '''We still have some work to make it perfect'''
  * '''review the english strings'''
  We haven't really done a proper review of the existing english
 translation on which every new translation is based. Some texts are not
 clear, too verbose, or not verbose enough.

  * '''add english plugins description for each plugin'''

  * '''column label translations'''
  The column label translations are on a per plugin basis. example: the
 Label column can either be "Action" or "Country". Currently some general
 column renaming are done in modules/ViewDataTable/Html.php but we should
 do this for every datatable that requires a custom label name (most of
 them do)

  * '''graph translations''' (see related ticket #84)
  it seems the graph API is not stable yet, maybe we can wait to have a
 more stable API / features set to think about it

  * '''main menu'''
  The Menu.php is terrible, I'm ashamed. We shall rewrite it using proper
 logic and nicer code. And make it translatable.

  * '''support for right to left languages'''
   * add conditional css style that will overload text classes/ids
     * direction: rtl
     * text-align: right (when original is left)
     * add definition in translation file indicating what kind of langauge
 we load (rtl,ltr)
   *
 [http://trac.dojotoolkit.org/browser/dijit/trunk/themes/tundra/tundra_rtl.css?rev=11656
 Example of a custom RTL CSS]

 See also #282: Language selection UI

 Please, if you have any other point you want to be fixed concerning i18n,
 post a comment

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/251#comment:4>
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