German i18n / l10n

[GertThiel]

I'm a German native speaker and could help with a German i18n / l10n of ZCS.
In Germany we use to start weeks on Monday

- Gert

[KevinH]

On a production install you can find the message files here:

/opt/zimbra/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7/webapps/zimbra/js/ajax/config/msgs/AjxMsg_en.js
/opt/zimbra/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7/webapps/zimbra/js/ajax/dwt/config/msgs/DwtMsg_en.js
/opt/zimbra/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7/webapps/zimbra/js/zimbraAdmin/config/msgs/ZaMsg_en.js
/opt/zimbra/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7/webapps/zimbra/js/zimbraMail/config/msgs/ZmMsg_en.js

[GertThiel]

ZCS does not seem to be well prepared for i10n / i18n:

/opt/zimbra/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7/webapps/zimbra/js/ajax/config/data
contains a file named AjxConfig.js which declares AjxConfig.DATE_SEP to be /. In Germany we use . as the date sererator: 31.12.2005.

BTW: Germans don't use AM or PM: My clocl shows 19:51 instead of 7:51PM.

[GertThiel]

In

/opt/zimbra/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7/webapps/zimbra/js/ajax/dwt/config/msgs/DwtMsg_en.js

the strings for the variables

DwtMsg.numberMoreThanMax
DwtMsg.numberMoreThanEqualMax

and

DwtMsg.numberLessThanMax
DwtMsg.numberLessThanEqualMax

should be replaced with each other!?

[GertThiel]

How can switch the l10n to test my translation?

[rdargahi]

Hi Gert,

Thank you for helping and for all of your great posts to the forums. This is our first localization, so please be patient with us and accept my apologies for any oversights we may have made. Let me try to address each of your posts in this one.


AjxConfig
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I think the values in AjxConfig should actually be settable as part of the general options panel in the application. That is the user should be able to select their date format, their date separator, and their time separator. Of course the user should also be able to set a 12 hour or 24 hour clock. We will fix this in an upcoming release. At the very least these should be localizable in the same manner as the messages are, we will try and address this as soon as possible

String for variables DwtMsg.numberMoreThanMax etc
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These messages are used when a value violates the rule specified by the message name. So for example in the code if a number is greater than a maximum, then DwtMsg.numberMoreThanMax is the message used etc. So the message name in this case is referring to the condition which causes the message to be returned. Sorry if this is confusing.

Messages in DwtMsg which assume certain date/time format
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This is an oversight. I am logging a bug for it to be fixed, as well I will make sure we address this in other parts of the application as applicable. By the way, we will be providing Bugzilla access in the very near future so you will be able to directly file and track bugs.


Turning on I10N
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Please try the following steps:

- Add a config_gr.properties and a config_gr-gr.properties file under ZimbraWebClient/src. The config_gr.properties file should be a copy of the config_gr-gr.properties file i.e. we will use the gr-gr as the fallback for gr. I suggest using config_en.properties as the template for your files.

- Do the same as above for adminconfig. These are for the administration console

- Redeploy the web client application

- Let the fun begin

It would also be great if you could send me the localized files you have created so that I can try them out on my side. This will help with any debugging we may need to do.

Thanks for your help!

Ross

[GertThiel]

Originally Posted by rdargahi

It would also be great if you could send me the localized files you have created so that I can try them out on my side. This will help with any debugging we may need to do.

Where shall I send my files to?

- Gert

[GertThiel]

Kevin,

please be patient. I'm currently adding a new disk to my Zimbra server (It's VMware hosted).

ZCS eats disk space like cookies.

- Gert

[KevinH]

Originally Posted by GertThiel

Where shall I send my files to?

- Gert

Use http://zimbra.com/community/contribute.html to send us a note when you are ready. We'll then reply in e-mail with an address to send the files to. Eventually we'll get file uploads up so you can upload directly.

[GertThiel]

Dear Kevin,

I halted translating the messages, because I have problem with special symbols like @. I installed ZCS in a VMware box on my PC which I remote control from my Mac using M$ Remote Desktop. Using the keyboard is a horror ;(

Would you be do me a favour and create a seperate tar.gz or zip archive of the translatable files? Alfresco.org publishes such language packs.

I would then work on my Mac what would be the easiest way to do so (Mac OS X does not know RPM).

TIA.

- Gert

BTW: If you would like to integrate German at a time, let me know. I would try to finish the translation in time.