[accessiblelinux] Re: i18n and Storm Dragon's orca script
- From: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Heliooos <heliooos@xxxxxxxxx>, Tony Sales <vinux.development@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Accessible Linux <accessiblelinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:16:57 -0500
Hi,
Using google translate is a great idea. I will check in to it and
hopefully have something soon. I am thinking that it should translate
the page where selections for hotkeys are made too. I shouldn't be very
hard, just a couple lines of additional code in the right place. For
example, get the weather from yahoo, and if language is set to something
other than english, have google translate the whole thing before sending
it to braille and speech. The hard part, and indeed the part I am
dreading, is creating the combo box for selecting the language. It's not
difficult, just tetius lol. I'll get started in a few minutes.
Storm
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On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 01:48 -0800, Heliooos wrote:
> Hi all,
> as Vinux is getting more and more widely used I am thinking about i18n
> of the orca customization script.
>
> I think there won't be any problem to translate the comments in "" or
> marked with # to help non-english speaking users with it. But in case
> of weather it is a little bit complicated from my point of view.
>
> I found that it gets the information from yahoo, which unfortunately
> is only in english. Is there any way to get the info in other
> languages? Of course, the sentences in "" can be translated but not
> the variables (cloudy etc.).
>
> I have two ideas - maybe stupid, maybe not (I do not have experience
> with programming):
>
> 1) is it possible to set it to get the yahoo weather info via google
> translate? If yes, this could be the easiest way to get the weather
> info in various languages only by editing the translation parameters.
>
> 2) I assume that the weather info has some commonly used expressions,
> so the script could replace them with the translated ones from some
> list like:
>
> replace "cloudy" with "zataženo" (in Czech)
> - such solution would be more complicated but could be also relatively
> easily translated
>
> I posted it here, as many people visit this forum so thic could be
> also a small brainstorming.
>
> thanks
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