>There is a somewhat undocumented algorithm to figure out fallback<br>>locale (eg: if locale is ne_NP, look inside ne_NP, if not found, look<br>>inside ne, and so on)<br>I really like this idea.<br><br>>so how about naming convention for the audio files<br> >langCode_htmlElementId.ogg ?<br>you mean something like:<br><br>en_content.ogg//suppose content is <div id="content" ...> <br>en_answer.ogg //suppose answer is <div id="answer" ...> <br> ?<br><br>felipe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/6/23 Bryan Berry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bryan@olenepal.org">bryan@olenepal.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:57 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:<br> > The above layout looks fine to me. I think it should be quite easy to<br> > load <LANGCODE>/audiofile.ogg when you have the langcode.<br> > There is a somewhat undocumented algorithm to figure out fallback<br> > locale (eg: if locale is ne_NP, look inside ne_NP, if not found, look<br> > inside ne, and so on)<br> > Many years back, I wrote a hackish Python script to do it:<br> > <a href="http://sayamindu.randomink.org/misc/get_language_names4.pytxt" target="_blank">http://sayamindu.randomink.org/misc/get_language_names4.pytxt</a><br> <br> </div>what do u think about my suggestion that we put LANGCODE in the file<br> name? We have a huge archive of audio files at the OLE office and it is<br> a major pain to differentiate b/w the Nepali audio files and the English<br> audio files.<br> <br> <br> so how about naming convention for the audio files<br> langCode_htmlElementId.ogg ?<br> <div class="im"><br> <br> > Producing the audio files is going to be another issue. Pootle won't<br> > be useful here - if we want to use the existing "crowdsourcing"<br> > approach, we might have to develop a custom webapp (or extend Pootle)<br> > to take in and handle audio files.<br> <br> </div>I would really, really like to crowdsource audio. Short audio snippets<br> are really essential to language learning. We have also found that our<br> kids really like audio feedback during exercises.<br> <div class="im"><br> <br> > Take a look at the javascript implementation of gettext:<br> > <a href="http://jsgettext.berlios.de/doc/html/Gettext.html" target="_blank">http://jsgettext.berlios.de/doc/html/Gettext.html</a><br> > Does it solve some of your problems ?<br> <br> </div>Will read through and the let u know<br> <div class="im"><br> > > 2) What are some pitfalls I haven’t thought of?<br> > > 3) How could we ensure dynamically generated numbers are presented in<br> > > the locale without making the programmer’s job too hard?<br> > ><br> ><br> > You mean native digits for numerals like ०१२३४... ?<br> <br> </div>Yes<br> <div class="im"><br> > glibc 2.2 and<br> > above has a flag character called I - so if you do printf ("%Id",<br> > ...), it will give you the locale specific digit. I'm not sure if this<br> > is available anywhere else though (Python does not have it - though I<br> > have some ideas about implementing it)<br> <br> </div>jquery.i18n utility seems to perform this service<br> <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jquery-utils/wiki/I18N" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/jquery-utils/wiki/I18N</a><br> <div class="im"><br> > > And a request: Pls, pls direct me to great i18n resources and guides. If<br> > > there is already an established standard for this, I will be happy to<br> > > copy it.<br> > ><br> <br> > The gettext manual is the best place to begin work:<br> > <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html</a><br> <br> </div>tks, i will definitely read thru that<br> <br> tks for all your help Sayamindu in this and many previous instances !<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> Bryan W. Berry<br> Technology Director<br> OLE Nepal, <a href="http://www.olenepal.org" target="_blank">http://www.olenepal.org</a><br> <br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>