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François Prunayre edited this page Nov 20, 2013 · 10 revisions

User interface translations facilities

Right now, geoNetwork language files are manually handled, which means that new string translations sometimes get lost on less used languages.

On a more advanced version of this configuration page, we should be able to translate strings to keep translations updated, upload the new translations to the main repository (github on this case) and the possibility to add new languages. It should also warn of outdated or non-translated strings to activated languages.

Languages configuration

Also, language selection on geoNetwork is hard-coded, so they are not easily changed.

The work on the new UI (Refactoring-Admin-console and Refactoring-editor) can be improved with a new configuration page for multilingual support. This configuration page will allow users to select which languages to use on the geoNetwork instance and hide the rest on all views:

  • What is the default language for the catalog ? ie. I want french the default
  • Which languages to be enabled for the catalog ? ie and only provide switch to english

Default language is now based on browser language if available.

Multilingual metadata

  • How to deal with multilingual metadata if moving to SOLR indexing ?
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