I Will be contributing to the development site !

[srmed2000]

Hello;

 

I'm from Palestine

 

i Will be contributing to the development site (osCommerce 2.2) ... can you help me?!

 

I'm very impressed with script(osCommerce 2.2) the site and I want to contribute in the translation into Arabic .

 

I will do it free of charge, just add the Arabic language to the site only.

 

Will include a translation of the control panel and the entire site into Arabic.

 

 

need from you is only that you send me the script (osCommerce 2.2) from right to left,

Make all the lists trend from right to left, because the Arabic language unlike English in writing and presentation of menus.

 

I'm waiting for your reply

Regars;

srmed

[ozEworks]

Not sure what you mean here.

 

If you want to download osCommerce RC2a then you can.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions

 

But most people who use a right to left language leave Admin in English and then just adapt their store design to cope with it.

[Jack_mcs]

I will do it free of charge, just add the Arabic language to the site only.

 

Will include a translation of the control panel and the entire site into Arabic.

This is handled by a language addon and, it appears, already been done.

See language addons.

[ozEworks]

There is more to it than just loading a language file.

 

The site design has to cope with the right to left display as well.

[Jack_mcs]

What else is there besides the text? It won't make a difference for the images unless they have text, which is up to the designer, not the programmer. And text is just characers that get displayed on the screen. The language files are setup to display them as needed. I've worked on a site that uses a language that reads right to left and it worked as expected when the languages were switched back and forth. I suppose if it mattered which side the infoboxes were on, that could be coded but that seems like it would be more confusing to do that than not to.

[ozEworks]

Well I guess it must depend on the design style then because often we have done two templates that switch along with the language change.

 

But if you are talking a simple 3 column format, you are right, you would probably change the content of the right and left columns.

 

Usually the search function also needs some work to be able to search over the non-English language given the change to the character set.

 

Interesting subject, designing for RL langauges but a little off-topic. Not even sure what this topic was in the first place!