Milestones

M2: May 5

• feasibility: look at string classes (unicode and not) and how strings are used in EiffelStudio (creation, composition) (Ivano, Carlo, Leo, Hong)
• file format: compare existing file formats for dictionaries (Etienne, Andreas)
• tool evaluation: list and compare existing translation tools (Christian, Martino)

M3: June 13

• write an initial .po to start translating and have a .mo for testing (Leo, Carlo)
• mo parser: extract translated strings from .mo files (Etienne, Martino)
• translation function: map hard-coded strings to translated strings (Martino)
  • find a solution with templates
  • globality: how to implement, the object should be shared between all modules (see class structure)
  • find out how to use plurals (see plural forms)
• Test unicode support in Vision2. [See test application in the SVN repository]
• compile a list of basic features to provide (e.g. date/time format, system locale) [deferred]

M4: June 28

• internationalization of EiffelStudio: surround strings with our functions
• translation of EiffelStudio in some languages, for demo purposes (Italian, German, Chinese, ...) (see pootle)
• code parser: extract strings to be translated from source code and generate .pot file (Leo)
• language selection: add an entry in the preferences system
• create a function to detect current environment language and settings (aka locale)

M5: July ??

• Refactoring of whole library
• Use our library for EiffelStudio
• Clean up Wiki and improve Developer manual
• Add support for other aspects of localisation - dates, number format etc. (possibly we can defer this a bit)
  • Compile a list of basic features to provide (e.g. date/time format, system locale) (deferred from M3)