This form creates or changes a "Locale" -- an object representing a
language and a region that can be used in translating Yioop to a new
language. Reaching it through Add Locale creates one; reaching it
through the pencil beside a locale updates that locale, and the locale
tag is then shown but cannot be changed.
- The Name field should be filled in with a name for the locale in
the language of the locale.
- So for French you would put Franรงais.
- The Locale tag field should be the IETF language tag. For
example, fr-FR for French from France.
- The Writing Mode dropdown says the direction text runs in for
this locale, which Yioop uses to lay out pages written in it. There are
four choices: lr-tb, left to right from the top of the page down, as in
English; rl-tb, right to left from the top down, as in Hebrew and
Arabic; tb-rl, top to bottom with lines running right to left, as in
Classical Chinese; and tb-lr, top to bottom with lines running left to
right, as in non-Cyrillic Mongolian and American Sign Language. Pick the
one your language is normally written in; where a language is written
more than one way, pick the way readers of your site expect.
- The Locale Enabled checkbox says whether or not users of this
Yioop installation can select this locale from the various language
dropdowns that appear on the Yioop site.
Two pages become unreachable once this one exists, and can be left or
removed as you prefer: Add Locale, whose text this replaces, and Locale
Writing Mode, whose text is folded into the writing mode item above.