SAKAI 3 i18n AND l10n NEEDS

In this document we will try to create a list of thing to think about i18n and l10n.

There are a lot of JIRA issues opened that I attach at the end of this page, but we are going to create first a list with most important things to have in mind when thinking Sakai 3 architecture.

Obviously the six i18n basic requeriments must be implemented with special interest in 1,2 and 4

1) Ability to type international (unicode) characters into any Sakai tool
2) Ability for any tool interface to dynamically reflect a user's preferred international locale --> 100% of strings, buttons, etc.

3) Ability to create worksites whose page titles will statically reflect to a defined international locale(If 4 is implementes, 3 seems not to be very important)

4) Ability to create worksites whose page titles will dynamically reflect a user's preferred international locale (VERY, VERY, VERY IMPORTANT)
Let the tools change name when change language preference. It's not very dificult with default names but it must store each personalized name in each language too.

5) Ability to create worksites whose page titles and tool interface will statically reflect a site's preferred international locale (Very useful for language courses)

6) Ability to support right-to-left languages

Ability to have more than one version of the same content. Each content web page, file, assignement, assessment, etc, etc. should have a default version and the ability of traslated versions (and a way of mantain all of then easily, of course)

Use the same (and localized) way to display dates and numbers in Sakai.

ACTUAL JIRA ISSUES


SAK-8599	jobscheduler internationalization
SAK-14453	Schedule import internationalization
SAK-8569	Messages/Forums internationalization review
TIME-61	Internationalization cleanup on search feature
SAK-12731	SAK-12636 Gradebook tool not correctly internationalized (needs ResourceLoader)
SAK-11966	SAK-11358 Standardize Citations Helper Exception cases and map to Resource Bundle properties to internationalize
SAK-11605	Numeric Fields Should be Internationalized (i.e., period/comma support based on locale)
SAK-9063	Add "Table of Contents" and "List of Links" titles (non-internationalized).
SAK-15037	Create internationalization mechanism to avoid duplication and de-synchronization of text shared across tools
SAK-9787	Should numeric values in authoring support commas instead points as separator of decimal part?
SAK-14647	Split i18n sentence breaking L10n in Podcasts (French Canadian example)
SAK-12772	Add translation capabilities to tools
SAK-15872	Gradebook mixes configuration and localization in properties files
SAK-7857	Allow users to specify their default WYSIWYG editor preference
SAK-12636	All Sakai code should reference ResourceLoader _not_ ResourceBundle
SAK-15996	Use Structured message formats in Samigo
SAK-15071	My Workspace help title and alt uses a split i18n message
SAK-14137	Update & Centralize Tool Descriptions for Worksite Setup & Site Info
SAK-8007	More flexible person names must be supported by Sakai
SAK-11608	How to handle decimal marker (point and comma) correctly for Numeric Response questions
SAK-10314	Remove sampletools.properties files from classpath
SAK-8908	Tool titles and Page titles should be displayed in user's prefered language/locale
SAK-3764	sakai.properties file contains language dependent strings that should be moved into individual tools' resource bundles (I18N)
SAK-14433	Web Links (URL) resources forcing to HTTPS on external link
SAK-14452	Searching users with accent insensitive
SAK-14744	Roster Groups / Include view of participant's group membership in roster
SAK-13631	Blog title doesn't show properly accents
SAK-7802	Add Clock to Interface
SAK-14661	Same string for two different i18n keys