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Re: App translation file names

 

Before you do this..just wait. I finally managed to get in touch with a
human behind that Pootle project, and they may fix it for us.

So, for the time being, we can wait, but thanks for agreeing to the change.
I will let you know. Good to know it can be changed quickly if needed.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok, I will change all the existing translation files in my apps to "apps".
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Abyot Gizaw <abyota@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> As I tried to mention this last time, the plugin I have for angular
>> translation accepts only JSON file not properties. I will look for a
>> solution to accept properties file. I know it has been a while since this
>> was asked ... but I need more time to fix this.
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Thank you,
>> Abyot.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
>> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Abyot, I can see you are still using json files. You can convert
>>> properties files to json objects with the dhis2.util.parseJavaProperties
>>> function.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
>>> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure, it will just take a minute to change it so why not.
>>>>
>>>> Then lets go for
>>>>
>>>> i18n_app.properties
>>>> i18n_app_es.properties
>>>> etc
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Jason Pickering <
>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, i guess what I was asking for would be that the name of the
>>>>> template (English) correspond to the pattern similar to the rest of the
>>>>> application.
>>>>>
>>>>> The path itself is fine. it is really just the file name which is
>>>>> important to the translation server engine. It recognizes the template
>>>>> files as "somepattern".properties and translation files as
>>>>> "somepattern_Language".properties, if that makes sense. The problem now, is
>>>>> it does not recognize the template but sees "en.properties" as a separate
>>>>> language. So similar to the "i18n_modules.properites"  (which it recognizes
>>>>> as a template. Note the lack of "en" in the file name)  and
>>>>> "i18n_module_es.properties" as a Spanish translation of the template.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know it is quirky, but hope it makes sense?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jason
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Jan Henrik Øverland <
>>>>> janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Jason,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the apps in dhis-web-apps have the structure i18n/en.properties etc
>>>>>> where the "en" is the default file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Should I change this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Jason Pickering <
>>>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Due to some peculiarities of the the software which is being used by
>>>>>>> some people to translate DHIS2 (http://translate.dhis2.net), the
>>>>>>> template files for all apps are not being recognized, thus it is currently
>>>>>>> not possible to translate them through this method. Would it be possible to
>>>>>>> use a similar file name structure as the rest of the application, so
>>>>>>> something like
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) i18_app.properties (for the English template)
>>>>>>> 2)  i18_app_es.properties (for the Spanish translation)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This would really help out the translation process,but not sure if
>>>>>>> there would be reasons not to do this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Jason P. Pickering
>>>>>>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>> tel:+46764147049
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jason P. Pickering
>>>>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> tel:+46764147049
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>


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Jason P. Pickering
email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
tel:+46764147049

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