Plone i18n, LinguaPlone

Plone i18n, LinguaPlone
Vitaliy Podoba, Developer
© Quintagroup, 2008

Zope/Plone i18n

Table of contents
History intro
Packages which influence i18n
Howto translate your package
Questions/Answers

History intro
No i18n
ZBabel
Localizer
PlacelessTranslationService
I18NLayer
I18NFolder
PloneLanguageTool
LinguaPlone

i18n packages
zope.i18n, zope.i18nmessageid
zope.app.i18n
Five
PlacelessTranslationservice
plone.i18n
plone.app.i18n
PloneTranslations
PloneLanguageTool
CMPPlone

Addon translation
Keep your code translatable:
Addon translation domain
Page Template translation
Python code translation
GS profile translation
Translation files

Translation domain
from zope.i18nmessageid import MessageFactory
PloneMessageFactory = MessageFactory('plone')

Page Template translation
<html ...
xmlns:i18n=" http://xml.zope.org/namespaces/i18n "
i18n:domain="plone">
...
<div i18n:domain="some.other.domain">...</div>
...
</html>

<p i18n:translate="msg_id">Welcome to Plone.</p>
<p i18n:translate="">Welcome to Plone.</p>

<p i18n:translate="">There have been over
<span tal:content="here/download_count"
i18n:name="count">100,000</span>
downloads of Plone.
</p>
There have been ${count} downloads of Plone.

Python code translation
from Products.CMFPlone import PloneMessageFactory as _
return _(u"Welcome to Plone")
from Products.CMFPlone import PloneMessageFactory as _
return _(u"welcome_to_plone",
default="Welcome to Plone, ${date}",
mapping={'date':'2008-08-08'})

ts = getToolByName(context, 'translation_service')
return ts.translate('domain',
'msgid',
context,
{'date':'2008-08-08'},
target_language='en',
default='Default message')

GS Profile Translation
See Page Template Translation section

Translation files

Translation Tools
I18ndude
i18nextract.py
PloneTranslations utils
poEdit

i18ndude rebuild-pot --pot locales/mydomain.pot --create mydomain .
i18ndude sync --pot locales/mydomain.pot locales/*/LC_MESSAGES/mydomain.po
i18ndude

#. Default: "Site News"
msgid "news-description"
msgstr ""
#. Default: "Events"
msgid "events-title"
msgstr ""
POT Example

Compile po files
# Compile po files
for lang in $(find locales -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d); do
if test -d $lang/LC_MESSAGES; then
msgfmt -o $lang/LC_MESSAGES/${PRODUCTNAME}.mo $lang/LC_MESSAGES/${PRODUCTNAME}.po
fi
done

Register translation
<configure
xmlns:i18n="http://namespaces.zope.org/i18n">
<i18n:registerTranslations directory="locales" />
</configure>

Questions/Answers

LinguaPlone

Table of contents
LinguaPlone Features
UI
LinguaPlone Internals
Questions/Answers

Features
Totally transparent, install-and-go
Each translation is a discrete object, and can be workflowed individually
Translations are kept track of using AT references
Even if you uninstall LinguaPlone after adding multilingual content, all your content will be intact and will work as separate objects

Features
Supporting multilingual capabilities is a 4 (!) line addition to your Archetypes class
Fully integrated with ATContentTypes, so the basic content types are translatable
Supports language-independent fields
Uses the notion of Canonical versions
LinguaPlone doesn't require a particular hierarchy of content

UI
Languages Control Panel
'Translate into' pulldown menu
Translation Form
Manage Translations Form
Language Selector Viewlet
Language Portlet

Languages Configlet

Translate into menu

Translation Form

Manage Translations Form

Language Selector Viewlet

Language Portlet

Internals
Patches: publisher, catalog, kupu
LanguageIndex: Language
languageIndependent=True
AT references: translationOf
Delete protection, off by default
Translation id: <orig_id>-lang_code

Multilingual support for your content types
try:
from Products.LinguaPlone.public import *
except ImportError:
# No multilingual support
from Products.Archetypes.public import *

Questions/Answers

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