Revision as of 11:05, 25 April 2006

Overview

"Many [people] would simply love seeing their computer screen showing a lot less of English, and far more of their own language." -- gettext doc

Our aim is not only to provide a framework to ease the translation of Eiffel-written applications, allowing the user to chose his/her preferred language at runtime, but also to let the developer access informations and formats based on users' locale.

Milestones

M2: May 5

• feasibility (look at string classes (unicode and not) and how strings are used in eStudio (creation, composition))
• file format (compare existing file formats for dictionaries)
• tools evaluation (list and compare existing translation tools)

M3: May ???

• design:
  • file formats (files holding translated strings)
  • code parser (extract strings to be translated from source code)
  • globality (how to implement, the object should be shared between all modules)
• compile a list of basic features to provide (e.g. date/time format, system locale)
• collaborate with the Vision2_and_Unicode team

Team

Everyone interested in this project is welcome to join our mailinglist es-i18n@origo.ethz.ch

• Project Leader: Carlo Vanini
• Leo Frank Fellmann
• Ivano Somaini
• Andreas Murbach
• Etienne Reichenbach
• Hong Zhang
• Christian Conti
• Martino Trosi
• Bernd Schoeller