Ethiopian / Eritrean Language (Geez unicode)

Nuke Cadet Joined: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 2

I'm planning to add Geez language and need know-how to implement this language. Is there any help to give me a start?

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 4:02 am

First dont use a windows server. None of the Geez locales are supported on windows. The 3 Geez locales are gez, gez_ET, gez_ER. However I have just checked on the UNIX server that hosts my own site and none are available on my host. This will only affect date and time functions however, and if you cant find a server with those locales installed then you will just have to live with that.

To create the Geez language option , save a copy of languages/lang-english.php as lang-geez.php in the languages folder. Then set about translating it.

E.g.Change:

Code:

define("_SEARCH","Search");

to:

Code:

define("_SEARCH","the Geez translation of the word Search");

Dont forget that modules have their own language files which would need translating.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Oct 18, 2005 Posts: 2

Thanks for the reply,

1) This are the first two lines on the lang-eng
define("_CHARSET","ISO-8859-1");
define("_SEARCH","Search");

is the CHARSET the same or is it - > "define("_CHARSET","ISO/IEC 10646-1");"

2) On translating such as "Search" = "©öD" which I get funny characters

3) I'm using linux-mandrake

any more help? Embarassed

Thanks again

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:55 am

You need to ensure that the correct character set is installed on your Mandrake system I would think. But then there may be another problem. Windows does not support the Geez locale so may not support the Geez character set. Maybe users can install it themselves otherwise their browser may not display the correct characters.

You probably know far more about this than me.

You can see in includes/meta.php where the character set is defined in the metatags:

Code:

echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset="._CHARSET."\">\n";

So one would assume that you need to include the correct _CHARSET definition in your language file.

See also http://www.karakas-online.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=204&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= for some possibly useful information about character sets for your MySQL database.