= Internationalisation Blueprint =

This page looks at ways we can extend the Internationalisation options within Sahana Eden.

Production Options are defined within DeveloperGuidelinesInternationalisation
 
== Right-to-Left UI ==
This should be possible with a new CSS file, as has been done for SahanaPHP:
 * [wiki:BluePrintCSS#Right-to-Lefttheme]

== Other options ==
 * [http://babel.edgewall.org Babel] - good toolkit to combine with GNU/gettext
 * [https://help.launchpad.net/Translations LaunchPad Translations] - access to Ubuntu community

 * [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage GoogleTranslate] can be used to help translators get started, but needs humans to make cultural and linguistic refinements
 * [http://www.google.com/transliterate/arabic/about_ar.html Google ta3reeb] - Arabic 'keyboard' using Latin characters

 * MS Localisation Design Pattern: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd129504%28v=VS.85%29.aspx

=== Notes ===
 * If needing to be able to handle alternate word order with dynamic strings then wrap in XML():
  * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/ccacbdc5286e5c56
 * Databases store Unicode characters as 2+ bytes, so string, length=20 may limit to just 10 characters:
  * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/e3927c8a333c9abe
 * UTF-8 encoding in Controllers:
  * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/8ae1a2f56a76f2af
 * Date fields:
  * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/msg/4a42f83c0989fedd
 * Working across Timezones:
  * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/1df15b5238c157d1
 * Paragraph Translations:
  * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/cd65f614d2156810
 * Currency Formatting:
  * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/320929/currency-formatting-in-python

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