Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/kernel/i18n-requirements.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/kernel/i18n-requirements.xml,v diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/kernel/i18n-requirements.xml 20 Aug 2003 16:20:19 -0000 1.2 +++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/kernel/i18n-requirements.xml 11 Dec 2003 21:39:50 -0000 1.3 @@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ OpenACS Internationalization Requirements - by Henry Minsky, + by Henry Minsky, Yon Feldman, Lars Pind, Peter Marklund, Christian Hvid, - and others. + and others. @@ -118,8 +118,12 @@ cleanly back into the code base, it would require making a new fork of the source code for each locale. -System/Application Overview + + + +System/Application Overview + A globalized application will perform some or all of the following steps to handle a page request for a specific locale: @@ -214,8 +218,8 @@ A developer needs to author a web site which operates in -multiple languages simultaneously. For example, arsDigita.com with -content and navigation in English, German, and Japanese. +multiple languages simultaneously. For example, www.un.org with +content and navigation in multiple languages. The site would have an end-user visible UI to support these languages, and the content management system must allow articles to @@ -313,7 +317,7 @@
See -Content +Content Repository Requirement 100.20 10.10 Provide a consistent @@ -369,8 +373,10 @@
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Resource Bundles / Content Repository + +Resource Bundles / Content Repository + 30.0 A mechanism must be provided for a developer to group a set of arbitrary content resources together, keyed by a unique @@ -380,7 +386,7 @@ localizable nav-bar mechanism for a site? A navigation bar might be made up of a set of text strings and graphics, where the graphics themselves are locale-specific, such as images of English or -Japanese text (as on www.arsdigita.com). It should be easy to +Japanese text (as on www.un.org). It should be easy to specify alternate configurations of text and graphics to lay out the page for different locales. @@ -677,7 +683,7 @@ column size declarations in the schema are large enough to accomodate required data (such as email addresses in Japanese). Since 5.0.0, this is covered in the database -install instructions for both PostGreSQL and Oracle. +install instructions for both PostgreSQL and Oracle. Email and