Re: [libreoffice-website] Evaulating AskBot - Language support?

Hi,

Am 15.11.2011 18:21, schrieb drew:
> so - I guess we would have some translation work here, which would of
> course help the AskBot project - a good thing.

Jepp, that is one of the drawbacks of askbot. But there is a app for
django (the underlying framework) that allows translation directly in
the browser.

> It appears that language is a property set at the instance level, not
> tied to a user account.

There are multiple ways to handle this. By default you are right, the
language is set at instance level. But askbot also supports localeurl,
this allows to set the language via domain/browser header/user settings.

> Out of the box then, I assume this would require that different
> instances of the application be run for each supported language 
> - allowing not only the application UI to reflect the language but also,
> and more importantly, the content.

There should be no problem running multiple instances of askbot using
the same tables (it can be made as easy as copying the settings file and
setting a different language in the new settings file).

But then there is the problem of how to avoid having questions of all
languages in one place. But this can be a quite easy hack: Adding a
language field to the question-model and filtering or adding
language-tags to the questions. I will talk to the main developer of
askbot how he thinks about it.

> OK - so there are quite a few multi-lingual users in our community - if
> I take it correctly each of these individuals would need to earn karma
> in each of the instances they participate in?

Only if we setup distinct databases for each language, and I will do
everything possible to not have to.

Cu,
Alex

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