Announcing the Ubuntu.com Website Localization Project

[Savvas Radevic]

Hi Chris,

 I already have a "working" version of a multi-lingual php-based
website[0]. I say "working", because it's a website pack, more or less
centralized to work for ubuntu-cy. I don't know if it's good from a
security point of view (I surely hope so), nor if it is suitable for
the cause you need it, but I thought to let you know about it anyway.
:)

If ubuntu.com website is using php, using the wonderful php-gettext
[1], you could use the common.php [2] (to load and setup languages)
and header.php [3] (to specify the "select language" drop-down box) I
wrote:

There's also a bash script, update-pot.sh [4], that I run every time I
want to update the *.po translation files.

The translations (*.po files) are tracked in launchpad[5]. The .po
files are found in "i18n" folder and the machine-translation files
(*.mo) that are actually used by the website are found in "locale"
folder[7].

Cheers!

[0] http://www.ubuntucy.org
[1] https://launchpad.net/php-gettext/
[2] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cy-webteam/ubuntu-cy-website/trunk/annotate/head%3A/common.php
[3] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cy-webteam/ubuntu-cy-website/trunk/annotate/head%3A/header.php
(See "Language box")
[4] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cy-webteam/ubuntu-cy-website/trunk/annotate/head%3A/update-pot.sh
[5] https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cy-website
[6] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cy-webteam/ubuntu-cy-website/trunk/files
[7] https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cy-website