From taltayeb a t smtp.aed.org Tue Jul 18 15:58:41 2006 From: taltayeb a t smtp.aed.org (Tayeb Al-Tayeb) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:58:41 -0400 Subject: [Webcalendar] Webcalender Language Capabilities Message-ID: --=__Part5673A331.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, My name is Tayeb, I'm with the Academy for Educational Development, a non-profit organization in Washington DC. I'm working on a multi-lingual web-based project that serves teachers from all around the world called GLP (visit www.glp.net). We are in the process of installing a web Calender application for our users that would be capable of displaying text in all the languages we support, especially Arabic. We are willing to translate what needs to be translated for webcalender to be Arabic enabled. Please let us know if this could be arranged and if webcalender has the capability to do so. Thanks Regards, Tayeb Tayeb al-Tayeb Global Learning Portal (glp.net) 202.884.8125 --=__Part5673A331.0__= Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: HTML
Hi,
 
My name is Tayeb, I'm with the Academy for Educational Development, = a=20 non-profit organization in Washington DC. I'm working on a multi-lingu= al=20 web-based project that serves teachers from all around the world called = GLP=20 (visit www.glp.net). We are in the = process of=20 installing a web Calender application for our users that would be capable = of=20 displaying text in all the languages we support, especially Arabic. We = are=20 willing to translate what needs to be translated for webcalender to be = Arabic=20 enabled. Please let us know if this could be arranged and if webcalender = has the=20 capability to do so. Thanks
 
Regards,
 
Tayeb
 
Tayeb al-Tayeb
Global Learning Portal=20 (glp.net)
202.884.8125
--=__Part5673A331.0__=-- From r.janssen a t uw.nl Wed Jul 19 08:35:50 2006 From: r.janssen a t uw.nl (Rob Janssen) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:35:50 +0200 Subject: [Webcalendar] Webcalender Language Capabilities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <44BDE0D6.1090607 a t uw.nl> Webcalendar can quite easily be translated into other languages, just install it and look how it was done for other languages.
You can copy a language file and edit it.
However, Arabic may be difficult because there are no provisions for right-to-left writing.
(i.e. you can translate phrases but you cannot change the ordering of phrases and data)

Rob

Tayeb Al-Tayeb schreef:
Hi,
 
My name is Tayeb, I'm with the Academy for Educational Development, a non-profit organization in Washington DC. I'm working on a multi-lingual web-based project that serves teachers from all around the world called GLP (visit www.glp.net). We are in the process of installing a web Calender application for our users that would be capable of displaying text in all the languages we support, especially Arabic. We are willing to translate what needs to be translated for webcalender to be Arabic enabled. Please let us know if this could be arranged and if webcalender has the capability to do so. Thanks
 
Regards,
 
Tayeb
 
Tayeb al-Tayeb
Global Learning Portal (glp.net)
202.884.8125