Hi thanks a lot for the information about XUL staff client - it sounds really promising :-) .
I hope the situation with the TPAC and web staff client will be equally optimistic. In any case I would really appreciate any further information on the Evergreen and Arabic, RTL etc. Eva --- Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková cer...@jabok.cz Tel. +420 211 222 409 Knihovna Jabok http:/knihovna.jabok.cz Tel. +420 211 222 410 Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická Salmovská 8, 120 00 Praha 2 2016-10-24 18:12 GMT+02:00 Ben Shum <b...@evergreener.net>: > Hi Eva, > > I know that in the XUL staff client, if one were to select a > right-to-left language, like Arabic or Hebrew (which are options), it > will change the direction of the client view to appear like it would > work from right to left. Without too many translated strings or users > though, I am unsure how it would behave with the actual working > interfaces. I imagine there's work to be done. > > And for the web catalog or web staff client, this is also largely unknown > to me. > > -- Ben > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Cerninakova Eva <cer...@jabok.cz> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I had been contacted by translator from Jordan who is member of the team > > currently translating Evergreen to Arabic. The translators had a few > > questions - one of them was whether Evergreen is capable of dealing with > > Arabic. > > > > I am sure there should not be problem to display Arabic characters in > > Evergreen. However I have some question about support for Arabic > Language > > too: > > > > 1) Is there a support for left to right writing in Evergreen? > > According to a few informations founded in general Evergreen mailing > list, > > information in dokuwiki (probably not very up-to-dated) and my very > > limited knowledge of Evergreen - I am quite positive the RTL is > currently > > not supported in Evergreen. > > > > I suppose the support for RTL would include: > > > > RTL dir attribute in html tag in web pages > > RTL support in CSS > > Possibility to switch the LTR to RTL when user switch from English > to > > Arabic language and vice versa in all parts of the interface including > print > > outputs, notifications etc. > > What else? > > > > The translating team have already some experiences in translating SliMS > ILS > > and PMB ILS to Arabic before and they are capable of creating style > > templates for OPAC but they will probably need some help from the > community > > e.g., with the questions how enable the proper style sheet according to > > language selected (RTL for Arabic, LTR for others). I > > > > 2) Does Evergreen currently include support for Arabic? According to the > > conclusions of the discussion in the general mailing list, which was > held in > > June this year > > (https://www.mail-archive.com/open-ils-general@list. > georgialibraries.org/msg12491.html), > > I am not sure of it. In every case as Arabic is quite trickier than LTR > > languages, it would be excellent if support for Arabic language and > > localization had a high priority in following Evergreen releases in > order > > to test the Arabic as quickly as possible. > > > > > > Thank in advance for the information > > > > Eva > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > Mgr. Eva Cerniňáková > > cer...@jabok.cz > > Tel. +420 211 222 409 > > > > Knihovna Jabok > > http:/knihovna.jabok.cz > > Tel. +420 211 222 410 > > > > Jabok - Vyšší odborná škola sociálně pedagogická a teologická > > Salmovská 8, 120 00 Praha 2 > > >