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[Jim Grace <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason and Mark,

Thanks for putting all this together. It looks reasonable to me (though I
don't know much about it.) I'd also be interested in your answer to
Morten's question about react-intl + format-js.

Cheers,
Jim


On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Jason
>
> I'm sorry, but I think it's more about the lack of time to answer, it's
> been a very busy week. Now we have a "mini" holiday in Norway, so will try
> and read it and reply.
>
> My immediate thoughts is that any kind of improvement is good.
>
> I'm a bit surprised you didn't suggest something like react-intl +
> format-js though, seems to be very popular among the react-js community..
> maybe i18nnext is more similar to our current gettext/po system?
>
> Just talking about VN locally, what they want is proper input format
> (comma vs punctum etc), but I think there is already something happening
> there (not sure if it's client side only, or also on server, analytics etc,
> at least 2.24 will have some kind of option for output).
>
> --
> Morten Olav Hansen
> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> http://www.dhis2.org
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Jason Pickering <
> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Devs,
>>
>> Since there has been no feedback yet, I assume this means we are clear to
>> proceed.
>>
>> Mark and I will coordinate the refactor and inform the various app
>> developers of the new procedure.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Jason Pickering <
>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> First, apologies for cross-posting. I was not sure who was on which
>>> list.
>>>
>>> Mark and I have put together a review document regarding translations
>>> and localization. This was spurred in part by my recent interaction with
>>> the i18n community who produces the Pootle software, which is used for the DHIS2
>>> Translation server <http://translate.dhis2.org/> and the challenges we
>>> face in getting translations into the software.
>>>
>>> I think we can all agree that the current state of the translations is
>>> pretty poor. Much of the software is at best partially translated.
>>> Translations typically are an effort taken by particular implementers, and
>>> when the realize how much work it is, they typically stall. Certain
>>> translations such as Arabic were performed to almost completion at the
>>> time, but have since not regularly been updated along with the source code.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think we can do better, and Mark and I put this document together to
>>> suggest some possible way forward to improve how we internationalize the
>>> software and hopefully bring in the broader localization community into the
>>> project.
>>>
>>> Please have a look, edit and comment here
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u0YhRZD2Q3F8p6VCsz7dXdZxJL45R0qsEfsNc0OCJYs/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Jason
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jason P. Pickering
>>> email: jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx
>>> tel:+46764147049
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> Jason P. Pickering
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>> tel:+46764147049
>>
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-- 
Jim Grace
Core developer, DHIS 2
HISP US Inc.
http://www.dhis2.org <https://www.dhis2.org/>