Re: [udig-devel] questions about uDig 1.0

[Chris Holmes <cholmes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>> - I understand you'll be delivering a French localization. Is there 
> >>> any talk of a Spanish one??
> >>
> >> Actually there has been some interest, we are going to focus on 
> >> internationalization in March. Being an open source project we 
> >> welcome collaboration.
> >
> > Great! I've never done internationalizations. IF we decide to go with 
> > uDig, I'll discuss this with my partners. I suspect the donors (a 
> > foreign aid agency) won't fund it directly, but I can bring it up to 
> > GIS groups in Nicaragua.
> 
> Note that GeoServer also supports internationalization, and I think 
> there is already a spanish translation available. What the work consists 
> of is copying around 20 files that look like this:
> 
> > search.label=Search
> > search.tooltip=Search for Spatial information
> > search.icon=etool16/search_co.gif
> > ...
The spanish translation was done by http://www.agiles.org - a great group 
from Spain promoting GIS Libre.  I imagine they might get to doing a udig 
translation eventually.  I ran across a decent article on eclipse 
internationalization: 

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Internationalization/how2I18n.html

Chris