[Live-demo] language code detection

[Daniel Kastl]

Hi Hamish,

Probably I did a logical error with the language detection.
The place where the language is defined in the script is the time when the
LiveDVD build is put together, right?
So it's not a script that will run, when a user logs in on the LiveDVD, I
guess. This is what I actually thought it would be nice to have.
In that case all welcome_message.txt files had to be included to the LiveDVD
and selected by another script, I think.

Would this be difficult task? I think, I'm a bit lost in the scripts at the
moment ;-)

Daniel




2010/9/19 Daniel Kastl <daniel at georepublic.de>

> Hi Hamish
>
> 2010/9/19 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>
> Daniel wrote:
>> > At the code sprint in Barcelona we had the idea to detect the language
>> > code automatically by the language the user selected at login (or the
>> > language set by default).So Hal made a change in /bin/main.sh to read
>> > the $LANG parameter and set the default language (and
>> welcome_message.txt)
>> > according to it. Here the additional source code:
>> >
>> >
>> > case `echo $LANG | sed 's/_.*//'` in
>> ...
>>
>> is that method acceptable for the Brazilians?
>>
>>
> As far as I understand it is always something like "de_DE", while the first
> part is the language and the second one the country. I don't know about
> Brazilians but for German it would work, for example Austria should be
> "de_AT".
>
>
>>
>> > The change for custom welcome message is in bin/install_desktop.sh (line
>> > 280):
>> >
>> > cp "$BUILD_DIR/../doc/$LANG_CODE"/welcome_message.* \
>> >   /usr/local/share/osgeo-desktop/
>> ...
>> > Language codes have to be added or deleted when they are ready or
>> > not ready to be included.
>>
>> try:
>>
>> if [ -e "$BUILD_DIR/../doc/$LANG_CODE"/welcome_message.txt" ] ; then
>>   cp "$BUILD_DIR/../doc/$LANG_CODE"/welcome_message.txt \
>>      /usr/local/share/osgeo-desktop/
>> else
>>   cp "$BUILD_DIR"/../desktop-conf/welcome_message.txt \
>>      /usr/local/share/osgeo-desktop/
>> fi
>>
>>
>> then if the translated version exists it will be used, otherwise it
>> will default to copying in the english version.
>> this assumes the DVD builder will be local..
>>
>
> original welcome_message.sh should always be copied, and duplication of
>> english version with desktop-conf/ is to be avoided. (correct way is to
>> remove the duplicated version from doc/en/, then if desired (I'm not sure
>> it is) 'svn move' from the desktop-conf/ dir; this way full svn history
>> is preserved and there is only one master file to edit. if duplicate is
>> absolutely needed, tell svn to use a symlink)
>>
>
> Well, I think it would be better to have all texts in doc/<language>/
> directory, so I would rather have the default "welcome_message.txt" in
> "doc/en" than in desktop-conf directory.  But having some fall-back is
> always good idea.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> regards,
>> Hamish
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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