= Translation Issues =

Noes for translating DrawMGT into other languages

== Basic Construction Terminology ==

A list of basic construction and DrawMGT terminology is defined in the file:

  * [[attachment:DrawMGT-Terminology-9.doc|DrawMGT-Terminology]]

The file currently contains the following columns:

 1. Message tag
 1. English
 1. German
 1. Finnish


== What Needs to Be Translated ==

 1. app/config/Messages.txt
 1. app/config/FieldNames.txt
 1. app/config/TableNames.txt
 1. app/config/Validation.txt
 1. Reference data (codes and names) in SQL statements in app/schema/data/refdata.sql
    * This could potentially be captured from Messages.txt via perl based text replacement (see below).
 1. Documentation


== Ideas ==

 1. Change refdata.sql to contain tags instead of hard coded English text
    * E.g. '@approvedWC@' instead of 'Approved with Corrections')
    * Then generate refdata-{language}.sql using a script that looks up and replaces the tags from the message files.