Creating new language?

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Hi,

My question goes to Elxis developers: Could I create new language?
Here's my problem: I have to create 4 online schools. As we Serbia have 2 scripts (NOT 2 languages), I need to find a solution to use serbian latin script. As, according to ISO, serbian official locale is serbian cyrillic, and students can be from regional countries, I need to display content in serbian latin. I was thinking of modifying croatian frontend laguage, as it is just a dialect of former serbo-croatian language, or creating a new language with new language tag (eg. sr_lat). I know that in Elxis languages are very sensitive matter, so I ask first.

Thanks

[datahell]

Yes you can.
There is only an issue that will be solved in Elxis 2007 regarding the naming.

What is the problem
You have "serbian" reserved for serbian cyrilic.
You need a new language name for serbian latin.

If the name for the serbian latin contains the word "serbian" (ie serbian_latin) you will have problem as database queries will return both items for serbian and serbian_latin for users that have "serbian" as their selected language (queries use the LIKE '%$lang%' method).

What you must do to solve the problem:
Rename "serbian" to "serbian_cyr".
Create a new language file package (as normally) named "serbian_lat".

Open includes/Core/locale.php

Find line:

'serbian' => array('sr_CS.utf8@euro', 'sr_CS.utf8', 'sr_CS'),

and add bellow this:

'serbian_cyr' => array('sr_CS.utf8'),
'serbian_lat' => array('sr_CS.utf8'),

Save the file. You are ready.

Notice 1:
sr_CS.utf8 will give you serbian cyrillic locale for "serbian_lat" too (ie dates will be in cyrilic).
I can not find a propper locale for "serbian_lat" (I think it does not exist).
So, you have 2 options:

1. display dates in english
'serbian_lat' => array('en_GB.utf8')

2. display dates in serbian cyrilic
'serbian_lat' => array('sr_CS.utf8')

Choose what you prefer most.

Notice 2:
If you find the proper utf-8 locale for "serbian_lat" and your system support it use that one.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Thanx datahell,

It is more or less what I intended to do... nice hint about DB queries though, I din't foresee that. As for locale... I know that ISO is treating serbian cyr and serbian lat like two languages, and therefore there is no latin locale for serbia. So, nevermind the locale. I used to rewrite MOScurrentDate in situations like this one.

So, thank you again, and keep on the good work.

[Ivan Trebješanin]

Hi datahell,

I have created new language called srpski, and so far, it seems to be working. I didn't add naw array in includes/Core/locale.php, though, because I want to share latin version with all users of Elxis, and it wouldn't be convenient to tell them all to mod includes/Core/locale.php. Anyway, serbian latin locale (UTF-8) doesn't exist, so I think there should be no problems. If you think that this solution might be worth posting in translations page, I will send it to develop at elxis dot org.

I did, however, notice this line > DEFINE('_LANGUAGE','sr'); I wonder if I should change this abbreviation too?

Thanks for your help