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Current Status of Internationalization

The University of Patras in Greece have done the initial hard work of separating out text from the JSPs into a dictionary file and linking to it. MARTON Jozsef has build on this by parameterising the UI text.

Since revision 1951 of SVN the i18n multilingualism patch is part of DSpace code base. This enables the DSpace instance to support more than one language.

Language packs now stored and managed in SVN

The language packs (messages files) contributed by the community are available at Sourceforge. The dspace project including the latest language-packs can be checked out through SVN with the following instruction set:

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svn co https://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace language-packs

Language packs now stored and managed in SVN

The language packs (messages files) contributed by the community are available at Sourceforge. The dspace project including the latest language-packs can be checked out through SVN with the following instruction set:

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svn co https://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace language-packs

The language-packs are The language-packs are also available in the download section at SourceForge

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The Eclipse Resource Bundle Editor is a usefull tool to create and manage Messages.properties files. It is an "Eclipse plugin for editing Java resource bundles. Lets you manage all localized properties files in one screen. Some features: sorted keys, warning icons on missing keys/values, conversion to/from Unicode, hierarchical view of keys, more..."

Original University of Patras I18N set of patches

In case these may be useful to someone, here is the original set of patches that enable I18N support developed at the High Performance Information Systems Laboratory (HPCLab), University of Patras. Please keep in mind that these patches have been tested and work only with DSpace 1.2 version.

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Contributors

The University of Patras in Greece have done the initial hard work of separating out text from the JSPs into a dictionary file and linking to it. MARTON Jozsef has build on this by parameterising the UI text.

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