Internationalization / French translation of Preferences Framework

[Harnum, Alan]

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this – getting a French-language demo of UIO might be a good talking point in the Canadian context. (I recognize our current resources both to do the translation and implement it are not exactly present)

On 2017-02-06, 1:41 PM, "Harnum, Alan" <aharnum at ocadu.ca> wrote:

    Email thread below that emerged from a tour I ran last week and a previous
    email from Bob Minnery about User Interface Options. Specifically about
    the desire (within the Ontario context) to be able to demo a
    French-language version of UIO.
    
    
    From my conversation with Justin it sounds like we have affordances for
    this, but no current French translation (or a language toggle). We do have
    them for the First Discovery Tool, which I pointed Bob to below.
    
    This email is more in the vein of an "FYI, we've been asked about this"
    than anything else.
    
    ALAN HARNUM
    SENIOR INCLUSIVE DEVELOPER
    INCLUSIVE DESIGN RESEARCH CENTRE, OCAD UNIVERSITY
    
    E aharnum at ocadu.ca <mailto://aharnum@ocadu.ca>
    OCAD UNIVERSITY
    100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Canada, M5T 1W1
    www.ocadu.ca <http://ocadu.ca/>
    
    
    
    On 2017-02-02, 11:29 AM, "Minnery, Bob (EDU)" <Bob.Minnery at ontario.ca>
    wrote:
    
    >Absolutely!   Worse case we could localize the project to WRMS. That said
    >a province wide process would be ideal.
    >
    >Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.
    >  Original Message
    >From: Harnum, Alan
    >Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:58 AM
    >To: Minnery, Bob (EDU)
    >Cc: Reeves, Wayne (EDU)
    >Subject: Re: Meeting follow up
    >
    >
    >Hi Bob,
    >
    >
    >I've looked into this since our conversation and here's some further
    >information on French-language options for our user preference tools:
    >
    >- we have English, French and Spanish translations for the First Discovery
    >Tool, which is not the dashboard we discussed yesterday, but a related
    >tool using some of the same code and sharing in the same user interface
    >customization concept:
    >http://build.fluidproject.org/first-discovery/demos/
    >
    >- we don't currently have translations for User Interface Options (the
    >demo at http://build.fluidproject.org/infusion/demos/prefsFramework/ that
    >we looked at yesterday), but adding them would be a matter of having
    >additional locale message bundles (one of the standard approaches for
    >applications that support multiple languages)
    >
    >Generally speaking our user interface customization tools have the
    >capacity to be multilingual, but don't in all cases have translations of
    >their user interface strings to French or other languages.
    >
    >Can I forward this question on to others at the IDRC for further
    >discussion?
    >
    >On 2017-02-02, 9:00 AM, "Minnery, Bob (EDU)" <Bob.Minnery at ontario.ca>
    >wrote:
    >
    >>Hi Alan
    >>I would love to mark out some time next week to discuss how we share user
    >>interface dashboard with you our stakeholders.
    >>Wayne is our IT Manager. Could you send the demo to Wayne so he will have
    >>a reference for our discussion please. Again we will need a French option
    >>too.
    >>
    >>Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.
    >>
    >