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Hello everybody,<br>
<br>
<br>
I am using eprints (v.3.3.14 installed on a debian system using
eprints installation-documentation for debian) to create a deposit.
I wish to use two languages for my deposit (Greek and English),
hence I need to develop a multilingual site. I am following the "How
to translate eprints" guide
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.eprints.org/w/How_to_translate_eprints">http://wiki.eprints.org/w/How_to_translate_eprints</a>) without much
luck so far, while simultaneously trying to use the "official" Greek
translation of eprints (for version 3.0, found in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://files.eprints.org/427/">http://files.eprints.org/427/</a> , undocumented). <br>
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I have managed to use the set_lang script (at least up to a point)
and I am able to see a Greek menu, but the Home page still appears
in English and I am trying to understand why. But this is not my
only problem. My problem is that the guide I am following leaves
many questions un-answered and I'd like to know if there's a more
"complete" guide on how to make a multilingual site for eprints. For
example, I found an old email of this list (dating back in 2004)
where somebody was trying to follow eleven specific steps on a
previous version of eprints (2.3.4) to make a multilingual site,
which I include in the end of my email.<br>
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So, my question is: is there an alternatvie guide (eg. x-step
guide), or even a more explanatory one that one can follow in order
to make their eprints-based site multilingual?<br>
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Thank you all for your time in advance and sorry about my generic
question,<br>
<br>
regards,<br>
<br>
George Mamalakis<br>
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PS1: I know that I was not specific enough, but that was on purpose
since my real question is very generic. Once I have more specific
questions I'll post them back.<br>
PS2: The 11-step guide mentioned in this list was this (semantics
defer in my version, and even though my
/path/to/archive/cfg/lang/el/static/index.xpage is in Greek, it
never appears correctly when I follow the relevant link):<br>
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1. Creation of /opt/eprints2/archives/archiveID/cfg/static/es
directory with ↵<br>
the files from /opt/eprints2/archives/archiveID/cfg/static/en
translated into ↵<br>
Spanish.<br>
2. Creation of /opt/eprints2/archives/archiveID/cfg/*-es.* files
translated ↵<br>
from /opt/eprints2/archives/archiveID/cfg/*-en.* files.<br>
3. Creation of /opt/eprints2/cfg/system-phrases-es.xml translated
from ↵<br>
/opt/eprints2/cfg/system-phrases-en.xml.<br>
4. Modification of /opt/eprints2/cfg/languages.xml to add support
for Spanish ↵<br>
language.<br>
5. Inside MySQL, copying of xxx_ordervalues_en tables to
xxx_ordervalues_es ↵<br>
tables.<br>
6. Edition of /opt/eprints2/archives/archiveID.xml to add
<language> and ↵<br>
<archivename> sections for Spanish language. Also set
defaultlanguage to ↵<br>
'es'.<br>
7. Execution of /opt/eprints2/bin/configure_archive.<br>
8. Set $c->{multi_language_options} = 1 inside ↵<br>
/opt/eprints2/archives/archiveID/cfg/<br>
9. When running 'bin/configure' and 'bin/install.pl' everything
works fine.<br>
10. When running 'bin/generate_views archiveID' and
'bin/generate_static ↵<br>
archiveID' the views for both en and es languages are generated.<br>
11. Stop and start Apache.<br>
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