Quote from: Jeff Lewis on August 03, 2002, 11:22:53 AMThanks Andrea! That completes this FAQ
With all respect .. it completes nothing.
Let me put it this way , in order to make a PERFECT translation of YaBBSE to Arabic you need to do the following:
- Edit the template.php and change this tag <HTML> to <HTML DIR="RTL"> .
- Look for <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> and change it to <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1256" http-equiv="Content-Type"> .
- Look for <TD vAlign=center align=left bgColor=#ffffff><IMG alt=logo
src="YaBBImages/selogo.gif"> in template.php and change it to <TD vAlign=center align=right bgColor=#ffffff><IMG alt=logo src="YaBBImages/selogo.gif"> .
This will make the whole page with the SELOGO look right for Arabic viewing. But your page will still be disoriented .. why .. cause there are some elements that are still in Left to Right direction .. such as board's name , board's desc , post button ...etc.. and to make it worse those elements are hardcoded.
- So far I have to change those two files: BoardIndex.php and MessageIndex.php , what we need to do here is just looking for the string (align=) and change the tag inside it in this manner : align="left" to align="right" and align="right" to align="left"
But am afraid those will not be the only files need to be changed.
- I also need to translate the complete helpadmin.help and the help files as well
... it is obvious now that we need a complete installation rather than just a single lng file.
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I know that the YaBBSE team are working so hard to give us this great BB and they do it for free.
When I start to make a translation , I was not doing it for my self but for the community to show my appreciation. But with the progress of the translation, I found that translation one file will not do the job right, and I just hate a job not done well.
Thanks
to see my board in arabic:
www.alnabri.net/yabbse-ar