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Bug 321426

Summary:	Please add a new language to Babel
Product:	[Technology] Babel	Reporter:	ferez <farzad_itm>
Component:	translations	Assignee:	Kit Lo <kitlo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P3	CC:	kitlo
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows All
Whiteboard:

Description ferez

2010-07-31 06:25:25 EDT

To whom it may concern,

I would like to contribute in translating eclipse to Farsi language (Persian language) but Farsi is not present in babel project. Would you please add the Farsi language to babel project as soon as possible? Is there anything I could do for that?

Cheers,
Farzad

Comment 1 Kit Lo

2010-07-31 11:41:31 EDT

I'm looking for the locale ID for the language. I found "Persian - fa". Is that correct?

Comment 2 ferez

2010-07-31 11:47:27 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm looking for the locale ID for the language. I found "Persian - fa". Is that
> correct?


Yes, it is correct. The ID for Farsi language is "fa"

Comment 3 Kit Lo

2010-07-31 11:58:40 EDT

According to my research, Farsi, Dari & Tajiki are modern varieties of standard Persian. We are going to use "Persian" as the language name and "fa" as the locale ID.

Comment 4 ferez

2010-07-31 13:16:51 EDT

This is great, Thank you very much. Please let me know when you are done and it is ready to be used.

Comment 5 Kit Lo

2010-08-03 20:15:08 EDT

We finished adding "Persian" to the Babel server. Welcome aboard! You may start translating now!

Comment 6 ferez

2010-08-04 07:01:34 EDT

Great! Thank you so much. I started to check how does it work and I got a suggestion about the "Current Translation" box which you enter the translated text in it.
This box is left-to-right by default and when you enter a Farsi sentence containing English words, the text gets messy. The same situation is hold for the "Last Translation" column which shows the translated text. What about to set the alignment of "Current Translation" box and "Last Translation" column to right-to-left for right-to-left languages? This way, translators will be able to see their translations as they will appear in eclipse. I mean the current user interface of the babel translation tool is not "What You See Is What You Get" for right-to-left languages.