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:

• DrawMGT-Terminology

The file currently contains the following columns:

1. Message tag
2. English
3. German
4. Finnish

What Needs to Be Translated

1. app/config/Messages.txt
2. app/config/FieldNames.txt
3. app/config/TableNames.txt
4. app/config/Validation.txt
5. 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).
6. 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.