Hi Robert, as for i18n the grade of internationalization depends on the version you're using. With 1.5 the i18n possibilities were largely improved.
As for 1.4.2 and below, you can simply - drop the Messages_LOCALE.properties in [dspace-source]/config/language-packs - run ant update - stop your servlet container - deploy dspace.war - start your servlet container This will lead to the use of all Messages_LOCALE.properties provided based on the user's browser settings with Messages.properties as a fallback. No further elements (like emails and so on) are i18n at this point. If you want more possibilities, you got to use this patch http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1450491&group_id=19984&atid=319984 which has become part of DSpace 1.5 JSPUI. This makes i18n configurable via dspace.cfg, i.e. listing supported languages. The user is able to select his preferred language from the languages supported and the language settings will work on all "text" related parts (apart from controlled vocabulary). How to configure the multilingual settings is described in dspace/docs/configure.html#multilingualui hope that helps Claudia Jürgen Robert Roggenbuck schrieb: > Hi all, > > after my successful installation of DSpace my first configuration step > should be the internationalisation of the site. German and English is my > first aim. But it would be nice to have all available localisations of > DSpace also available at our site. Unfortunately the Wiki provides some > resources regarding i18n, but no "how-to". Even the official > documentation is somewhat nebulous about it. At > https://eldorado.uni-dortmund.de/bitstream/2003/23572/11/customizationDSpace.pdf > I found something like a how-to, but I did not succeed with it. > > Thats what I did: > 1. Installing the Java Standard Tag Library 1.0 (using the Ubuntu > package libcommons-jexl-java) > 2. Downloading the language packs > (http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dspace/dspace-language-pack-1_4_2.tgz) > 3. Downloading additional German sources > (http://wiki.dspace.org/static_files/7/79/German.zip) > 4. >cp Messages_*.properties [dspace-src]/language-packs/ > 5. >cp *_de [dspace-src]/config/emails/ (email files from German.zip) > 6. Copied default_de.license, input-forms_de.xml, news-side_de.html, > news-top_de.html to [dspace-src]/config/ (other files from German.zip) > 7. "Announcing" the changes to DSpace and Tomcat: > >cd [dspace-src] > >ant init_configs > >sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 stop > >sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5 start > > But there are no changes on the Website, even my browser have 'de' as > preferred language. > > Thanks for any suggestions... > > Best regards > > Robert > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
