[node-devel] I18N support in oVirt Node

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabian Deutsch" <fabian.deutsch at gmx.de>
> To: "node-devel" <node-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 5:10:51 PM
> Subject: [node-devel] I18N support in oVirt Node
> 
> Hey,
> 
> to open oVirt Node to a wider and non-english speaking audience it
> might
> help to add some I18N support to node.
> 
> Currently it seems as if it wasn't the highest priority adding i18n
> to
> node. I couldn't find traces in the init scripts or the tui sources.
> But both parts require user interaction and should therefor be at
> least
> translated to give non-english speakers a chance to use node.
> 
> I'd propose to start with adding some gettext infrastructure to the
> present python sources and identify and extract the relevant strings
> in
> a next step.
> The init scripts, which are currently plain bash scripts, can be left
> aside right now, because it might make more sense to add gettext
> while
> migrating them to python [1].
> 
> Any thoughts on this? And volunteers to translate some strings? :)
> I can provide some de_DE strings.

The other thing to consider is keyboard support - making sure that we support different keyboard layouts in the node.
Downstream bug here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742041

> 
> Greetings
> fabian
> 
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