Annotation of loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm, revision 1.26
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2: # Localization routines
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1.10 bowersj2 30:
31: =pod
32:
33: =head1 NAME
34:
35: Apache::lonlocal - provides localization services
36:
37: =head1 SYNOPSIS
38:
39: lonlocal provides localization services for LON-CAPA programmers based
40: on Locale::Maketext. See
41: C<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod>
42: for more information on Maketext.
43:
44: =head1 OVERVIEWX<internationalization>
45:
46: As of LON-CAPA 1.1, we've started to localize LON-CAPA using the
47: Locale::Maketext module. Internationalization is the bulk of the work
48: right now (pre-1.1); localizing can be done anytime, and involves
49: little or no programming.
50:
51: The internationalization process involves putting a wrapper around
52: on-screen user messages and menus and turning them into keys,
53: which the MaketextX<Maketext> library translates into the desired
54: language output using a look-up table ("lexicon").X<lexicon>
55:
56: As keys we are currently using the plain English messages, and
57: Maketext is configured to replace the message by its own key if no
58: translation is found. This makes it easy to phase in the
59: internationalization without disturbing the screen output.
60:
61: Internationalization is somewhat tedious and effectively impossible
62: for a non-fluent speaker to perform, but is fairly easy to create
63: translations, requiring no programming skill. As a result, this is one
64: area where you can really help LON-CAPA out, even if you aren't a
65: programmer, and we'd really appreciate it.
66:
67: =head1 How To Localize Handlers For Programmers
68:
69: Into the "use" section of a module, we need to insert
70:
71: use Apache::lonlocal;
72:
73: Note that there are B<no parentheses>, we B<want> to pollute our
74: namespace.
75:
76: Inside might be something like this
77:
78: sub message {
79: my $status=shift;
80: my $message='Status unknown';
81: if ($status eq 'WON') {
82: $message='You have won.';
83: } elsif ($status eq 'LOST') {
84: $message='You are a total looser.';
85: }
86: return $message;
87: }
88: ...
89: $r->print('<h3>Gamble your Homework Points</h3>');
90: ...
91: $r->print(<<ENDMSG);
92: <font size="1">Rules:</font>
93: <font size="0">No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.</font>
94: ENDMSG
95:
96: We have to now wrap the subroutine &mt()X<mt> ("maketext") around our
97: messages, but not around markup, etc. We also want minimal disturbance.
98: The first two examples are easy:
99:
100: sub message {
101: my $status=shift;
102: my $message='Status unknown';
103: if ($status eq 'WON') {
104: $message='You have won.';
105: } elsif ($status eq 'LOST') {
106: $message='You are a total looser.';
107: }
108: return &mt($message);
109: }
110: ...
111: $r->print('<h3>'.&mt('Gamble your Homework Points').'</h3>');
112:
113: The last one is a bummer, since you cannot call subroutines inside of
114: (<<MARKER). I have written a little subroutine to generate a translated
115: hash for that purpose:
116:
117: my %lt=&Apache::lonlocal::texthash('header' => 'Rules', 'disclaimer' =>
118: 'No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.');
119: $r->print(<<ENDMSG);
120: <font size="1">$lt{'header'}:</font>
121: <font size="0">$lt{'disclaimer'}</font>
122: ENDMSG
123:
124: As a programmer, your job is done here. If everything worked, you
125: should see no changes on the screen.
126:
127: =head1 How To Localize LON-CAPA for Translators
128:
129: As a translator, you need to provide the lexicon for the keys, which in
130: this case is the plain text message. The lexicons sit in
131: loncom/localize/localize, with the language code as filename, for
132: example de.pm for the German translation. The file then simply looks
133: like this:
134:
135: 'You have won.'
136: => 'Sie haben gewonnen.',
137:
138: 'You are a total looser.'
139: => 'Sie sind der totale Verlierer.',
140:
141: 'Rules'
142: => 'Regeln',
143:
144: 'No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.'
145: => 'Es ist erlaubt, einfach zu verlieren, und das ist Ihre Schuld.'
146:
147:
148: Comments may be added with the # symbol, which outside of a string
149: (the things with the apostrophe surrounding them, which are the
150: keys and translations) will cause the translation routines to
151: ignore the rest of the line.
152:
153: This is a relatively easy task, and any help is appreciated.
154:
155: Maketext can do a whole lot more, see
156: C<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod>
157: but for most purposes, we do not have to mess with that.
158:
159: =cut
1.1 www 160:
161: package Apache::lonlocal;
162:
163: use strict;
164: use Apache::localize;
1.3 www 165: use Apache::File;
1.14 www 166: use locale;
167: use POSIX qw(locale_h);
1.1 www 168:
169: require Exporter;
170:
171: our @ISA = qw (Exporter);
1.22 bowersj2 172: our @EXPORT = qw(mt mtn ns);
1.1 www 173:
174: # ========================================================= The language handle
175:
176: use vars qw($lh);
177:
178: # ===================================================== The "MakeText" function
179:
180: sub mt (@) {
1.23 www 181: # my $fh=Apache::File->new('>>/home/www/loncapa/loncom/localize/localize/newphrases.txt');
1.26 ! www 182: # print $fh @_[0]."\n";
1.23 www 183: # $fh->close();
1.26 ! www 184: if ($lh) {
! 185: return $lh->maketext(@_);
1.3 www 186: } else {
1.26 ! www 187: return @_;
1.4 www 188: }
189: }
190:
1.6 www 191: # ============================================================== What language?
192:
193: sub current_language {
1.20 albertel 194: if ($lh) {
195: my $lang=$lh->maketext('language_code');
196: return ($lang eq 'language_code'?'en':$lang);
197: }
1.21 www 198: return 'en';
1.6 www 199: }
200:
1.8 www 201: # ============================================================== What encoding?
202:
203: sub current_encoding {
1.12 albertel 204: if ($lh) {
205: my $enc=$lh->maketext('char_encoding');
206: return ($enc eq 'char_encoding'?'':$enc);
207: } else {
208: return undef;
209: }
1.8 www 210: }
211:
1.15 www 212: # =============================================================== Which locale?
213: # Refer to locale -a
214: #
215: sub current_locale {
216: if ($lh) {
217: my $enc=$lh->maketext('lang_locale');
218: return ($enc eq 'lang_locale'?'':$enc);
219: } else {
220: return undef;
221: }
222: }
223:
1.4 www 224: # ============================================================== Translate hash
225:
226: sub texthash {
227: my %hash=@_;
228: foreach (keys %hash) {
229: $hash{$_}=&mt($hash{$_});
230: }
231: return %hash;
1.1 www 232: }
233:
234: # ========= Get a handle (do not invoke in vain, leave this to access handlers)
235:
236: sub get_language_handle {
1.9 www 237: my $r=shift;
1.2 www 238: $lh=Apache::localize->get_handle(&Apache::loncommon::preferred_languages);
1.12 albertel 239: if (&Apache::lonnet::mod_perl_version == 1) {
240: $r->content_languages([¤t_language()]);
1.8 www 241: }
1.16 www 242: ### setlocale(LC_ALL,¤t_locale);
1.18 www 243: }
244:
245: # ========================================================== Localize localtime
246:
247: sub locallocaltime {
248: my $thistime=shift;
249: if ((¤t_language=~/^en/) || (!$lh)) {
250: return ''.localtime($thistime);
251: } else {
252: my $format=$lh->maketext('date_locale');
253: if ($format eq 'date_locale') {
254: return ''.localtime($thistime);
255: }
256: my ($seconds,$minutes,$twentyfour,$day,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=
257: localtime($thistime);
258: my $month=(split(/\,/,$lh->maketext('date_months')))[$mon];
259: my $weekday=(split(/\,/,$lh->maketext('date_days')))[$wday];
260: if ($seconds<10) {
261: $seconds='0'.$seconds;
262: }
263: if ($minutes<10) {
264: $minutes='0'.$minutes;
265: }
266: $year+=1900;
267: my $twelve=$twentyfour;
1.19 www 268: my $ampm;
1.18 www 269: if ($twelve>12) {
270: $twelve-=12;
1.19 www 271: $ampm=$lh->maketext('date_pm');
1.18 www 272: } else {
1.19 www 273: $ampm=$lh->maketext('date_am');
1.18 www 274: }
275: foreach
276: ('seconds','minutes','twentyfour','twelve','day','year',
1.19 www 277: 'month','weekday','ampm') {
1.18 www 278: $format=~s/\$$_/eval('$'.$_)/gse;
279: }
280: return $format;
281: }
1.1 www 282: }
283:
1.17 bowersj2 284: # ==================== Normalize string (reduce fragility in the lexicon files)
285:
286: # This normalizes a string to reduce fragility in the lexicon files of
287: # huge messages (such as are used by the helper), and allow useful
288: # formatting: reduce all consecutive whitespace to a single space,
289: # and remove all HTML
290: sub normalize_string {
291: my $s = shift;
292: $s =~ s/\s+/ /g;
293: $s =~ s/<[^>]+>//g;
1.22 bowersj2 294: # Pop off beginning or ending spaces, which aren't good
295: $s =~ s/^\s+//;
296: $s =~ s/\s+$//;
1.17 bowersj2 297: return $s;
298: }
1.22 bowersj2 299:
300: # alias for normalize_string; recommend using it only in the lexicon
301: sub ns {
302: return normalize_string(@_);
303: }
304:
305: # mtn: call the mt function and the normalization function easily.
306: # Returns original non-normalized string if there was no translation
307: sub mtn (@) {
308: my @args = @_; # don't want to modify caller's string; if we
309: # didn't care about that we could set $_[0]
310: # directly
311: $args[0] = normalize_string($args[0]);
312: my $translation = &mt(@args);
313: if ($translation ne $args[0]) {
314: return $translation;
315: } else {
316: return $_[0];
317: }
318: }
319:
1.1 www 320: 1;
321:
322: __END__
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