Annotation of loncom/localize/lonlocal.pm, revision 1.61

1.1       www         1: # The LearningOnline Network with CAPA
                      2: # Localization routines
                      3: #
1.61    ! raeburn     4: # $Id: lonlocal.pm,v 1.60 2009/10/01 20:22:33 raeburn Exp $
1.1       www         5: #
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                      7: #
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                      9: #
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                     23: #
                     24: # /home/httpd/html/adm/gpl.txt
                     25: #
                     26: # http://www.lon-capa.org/
                     27: #
                     28: ######################################################################
                     29: ######################################################################
1.10      bowersj2   30: 
                     31: =pod
                     32: 
                     33: =head1 NAME
                     34: 
                     35: Apache::lonlocal - provides localization services
                     36: 
                     37: =head1 SYNOPSIS
                     38: 
                     39: lonlocal provides localization services for LON-CAPA programmers based
                     40: on Locale::Maketext. See
                     41: C<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod>
                     42: for more information on Maketext.
                     43: 
                     44: =head1 OVERVIEWX<internationalization>
                     45: 
                     46: As of LON-CAPA 1.1, we've started to localize LON-CAPA using the
                     47: Locale::Maketext module. Internationalization is the bulk of the work
                     48: right now (pre-1.1); localizing can be done anytime, and involves 
                     49: little or no programming.
                     50: 
                     51: The internationalization process involves putting a wrapper around
                     52: on-screen user messages and menus and turning them into keys,
                     53: which the MaketextX<Maketext> library translates into the desired
                     54: language output using a look-up table ("lexicon").X<lexicon>
                     55: 
                     56: As keys we are currently using the plain English messages, and
                     57: Maketext is configured to replace the message by its own key if no
                     58: translation is found. This makes it easy to phase in the
                     59: internationalization without disturbing the screen output.
                     60: 
                     61: Internationalization is somewhat tedious and effectively impossible
                     62: for a non-fluent speaker to perform, but is fairly easy to create
                     63: translations, requiring no programming skill. As a result, this is one
                     64: area where you can really help LON-CAPA out, even if you aren't a
                     65: programmer, and we'd really appreciate it.
                     66: 
                     67: =head1 How To Localize Handlers For Programmers
                     68: 
                     69: Into the "use" section of a module, we need to insert
                     70: 
                     71:  use Apache::lonlocal;
                     72: 
                     73: Note that there are B<no parentheses>, we B<want> to pollute our
                     74: namespace. 
                     75: 
                     76: Inside might be something like this
                     77: 
                     78:  sub message {
                     79:      my $status=shift;
                     80:      my $message='Status unknown';
                     81:      if ($status eq 'WON') {
                     82:         $message='You have won.';
                     83:      } elsif ($status eq 'LOST') {
                     84:         $message='You are a total looser.';
                     85:      }
                     86:      return $message;
                     87:  }
                     88:  ...
                     89:  $r->print('<h3>Gamble your Homework Points</h3>');
                     90:  ...
                     91:  $r->print(<<ENDMSG);
                     92:  <font size="1">Rules:</font>
                     93:  <font size="0">No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.</font>
                     94:  ENDMSG
                     95: 
                     96: We have to now wrap the subroutine &mt()X<mt> ("maketext") around our 
                     97: messages, but not around markup, etc. We also want minimal disturbance. 
                     98: The first two examples are easy:
                     99: 
                    100:  sub message {
                    101:      my $status=shift;
                    102:      my $message='Status unknown';
                    103:      if ($status eq 'WON') {
                    104:         $message='You have won.';
                    105:      } elsif ($status eq 'LOST') {
                    106:         $message='You are a total looser.';
                    107:      }
                    108:      return &mt($message);
                    109:  }
                    110:  ...
                    111:  $r->print('<h3>'.&mt('Gamble your Homework Points').'</h3>');
                    112: 
                    113: The last one is a bummer, since you cannot call subroutines inside of 
                    114: (<<MARKER). I have written a little subroutine to generate a translated 
                    115: hash for that purpose:
                    116: 
                    117:  my %lt=&Apache::lonlocal::texthash('header' => 'Rules', 'disclaimer' => 
                    118:  'No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.');
                    119:  $r->print(<<ENDMSG);
                    120:  <font size="1">$lt{'header'}:</font>
                    121:  <font size="0">$lt{'disclaimer'}</font>
                    122:  ENDMSG
                    123: 
                    124: As a programmer, your job is done here. If everything worked, you 
                    125: should see no changes on the screen.
                    126: 
                    127: =head1 How To Localize LON-CAPA for Translators
                    128: 
                    129: As a translator, you need to provide the lexicon for the keys, which in 
                    130: this case is the plain text message. The lexicons sit in 
                    131: loncom/localize/localize, with the language code as filename, for 
                    132: example de.pm for the German translation. The file then simply looks 
                    133: like this:
                    134: 
                    135:     'You have won.'
                    136:  => 'Sie haben gewonnen.',
                    137: 
                    138:     'You are a total looser.'
                    139:  => 'Sie sind der totale Verlierer.',
                    140: 
                    141:     'Rules'
                    142:  => 'Regeln',
                    143: 
                    144:     'No purchase necessary. Illegal where not allowed.'
                    145:  => 'Es ist erlaubt, einfach zu verlieren, und das ist Ihre Schuld.'
                    146: 
                    147: 
                    148: Comments may be added with the # symbol, which outside of a string
                    149: (the things with the apostrophe surrounding them, which are the 
                    150: keys and translations) will cause the translation routines to
                    151: ignore the rest of the line.
                    152: 
                    153: This is a relatively easy task, and any help is appreciated.
                    154: 
                    155: Maketext can do a whole lot more, see
                    156: C<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-Maketext/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod>
                    157: but for most purposes, we do not have to mess with that.
                    158: 
                    159: =cut
1.1       www       160: 
                    161: package Apache::lonlocal;
                    162: 
                    163: use strict;
                    164: use Apache::localize;
1.14      www       165: use locale;
1.39      albertel  166: use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);
1.42      albertel  167: use DateTime();
1.46      raeburn   168: use DateTime::TimeZone;
1.49      raeburn   169: use DateTime::Locale;
1.1       www       170: 
                    171: require Exporter;
                    172: 
                    173: our @ISA = qw (Exporter);
1.48      raeburn   174: our @EXPORT = qw(mt mtn ns mt_user);
1.1       www       175: 
1.57      www       176: my %mtcache=();
                    177: 
1.1       www       178: # ========================================================= The language handle
                    179: 
1.57      www       180: use vars qw($lh $current_language);
1.1       www       181: 
                    182: # ===================================================== The "MakeText" function
                    183: 
                    184: sub mt (@) {
1.36      albertel  185: #    open(LOG,'>>/home/www/loncapa/loncom/localize/localize/newphrases.txt');
                    186: #    print LOG (@_[0]."\n");
                    187: #    close(LOG);
1.26      www       188:     if ($lh) {
1.44      raeburn   189:         if ($_[0] eq '') {
                    190:             if (wantarray) {
                    191:                 return @_;
                    192:             } else {
                    193:                 return $_[0];
                    194:             }
                    195:         } else {
1.57      www       196:             if ($#_>0) { return $lh->maketext(@_); }
                    197:             if ($mtcache{$current_language.':'.$_[0]}) {
                    198:                return $mtcache{$current_language.':'.$_[0]};
                    199:             }
                    200:             my $translation=$lh->maketext(@_);
                    201:             $mtcache{$current_language.':'.$_[0]}=$translation;
                    202:             return $translation; 
1.44      raeburn   203:         }
1.3       www       204:     } else {
1.31      albertel  205: 	if (wantarray) {
                    206: 	    return @_;
                    207: 	} else {
                    208: 	    return $_[0];
                    209: 	}
1.4       www       210:     }
                    211: }
                    212: 
1.48      raeburn   213: sub mt_user {
                    214:     my ($user_lh,@what) = @_;
                    215:     if ($user_lh) {
                    216:         if ($what[0] eq '') {
                    217:             if (wantarray) {
                    218:                 return @what;
                    219:             } else {
                    220:                 return $what[0];
                    221:             }
                    222:         } else {
                    223:             return $user_lh->maketext(@what);
                    224:         }
                    225:     } else {
                    226:         if (wantarray) {
                    227:             return @what;
                    228:         } else {
                    229:             return $what[0];
                    230:         }
                    231:     }
                    232: }
                    233: 
1.6       www       234: # ============================================================== What language?
                    235: 
                    236: sub current_language {
1.20      albertel  237:     if ($lh) {
                    238: 	my $lang=$lh->maketext('language_code');
                    239: 	return ($lang eq 'language_code'?'en':$lang);
                    240:     }
1.21      www       241:     return 'en';
1.6       www       242: }
                    243: 
1.52      raeburn   244: sub preferred_languages {
                    245:     my @languages=();
                    246:     if (($Apache::lonnet::env{'request.role.adv'}) && ($Apache::lonnet::env{'form.languages'})) {
                    247:         @languages=(@languages,split(/\s*(\,|\;|\:)\s*/,$Apache::lonnet::env{'form.languages'}));
                    248:     }
                    249:     if ($Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.languages'}) {
                    250:         @languages=(@languages,split(/\s*(\,|\;|\:)\s*/,
                    251:                  $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.languages'}));
                    252:     }
                    253: 
                    254:     if ($Apache::lonnet::env{'environment.languages'}) {
                    255:         @languages=(@languages,
                    256:                     split(/\s*(\,|\;|\:)\s*/,$Apache::lonnet::env{'environment.languages'}));
                    257:     }
                    258:     my $browser=$ENV{'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'};
                    259:     if ($browser) {
                    260:         my @browser =
                    261:             map { (split(/\s*;\s*/,$_))[0] } (split(/\s*,\s*/,$browser));
                    262:         push(@languages,@browser);
                    263:     }
                    264: 
1.60      raeburn   265:     my $defdom = &Apache::lonnet::default_login_domain();
                    266:     foreach my $domtype ($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'},$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.role.domain'},$defdom) {
1.52      raeburn   267:         if ($domtype ne '') {
                    268:             my %domdefs = &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($domtype);
                    269:             if ($domdefs{'lang_def'} ne '') {
                    270:                 push(@languages,$domdefs{'lang_def'});
                    271:             }
                    272:         }
                    273:     }
                    274:     return &get_genlanguages(@languages);
                    275: }
                    276: 
                    277: sub get_genlanguages {
                    278:     my (@languages) = @_;
                    279: # turn "en-ca" into "en-ca,en"
                    280:     my @genlanguages;
                    281:     foreach my $lang (@languages) {
                    282:         unless ($lang=~/\w/) { next; }
                    283:         push(@genlanguages,$lang);
                    284:         if ($lang=~/(\-|\_)/) {
                    285:             push(@genlanguages,(split(/(\-|\_)/,$lang))[0]);
                    286:         }
                    287:     }
                    288:     #uniqueify the languages list
                    289:     my %count;
                    290:     @genlanguages = map { $count{$_}++ == 0 ? $_ : () } @genlanguages;
                    291:     return @genlanguages;
                    292: }
                    293: 
1.8       www       294: # ============================================================== What encoding?
                    295: 
                    296: sub current_encoding {
1.33      albertel  297:     my $default='UTF-8';
1.61    ! raeburn   298:     unless ($Apache::lonnet::env{'browser.unicode'}) {
        !           299:         if ($Apache::lonnet::env{'browser.os'} eq 'win' && 
        !           300: 	    $Apache::lonnet::env{'browser.type'} eq 'explorer') {
        !           301:             $default='ISO-8859-1';
        !           302:         }
        !           303:     }
1.12      albertel  304:     if ($lh) {
                    305: 	my $enc=$lh->maketext('char_encoding');
1.33      albertel  306: 	return ($enc eq 'char_encoding'?$default:$enc);
1.12      albertel  307:     } else {
1.33      albertel  308: 	return $default;
1.12      albertel  309:     }
1.8       www       310: }
                    311: 
1.15      www       312: # =============================================================== Which locale?
                    313: # Refer to locale -a
                    314: #
                    315: sub current_locale {
                    316:     if ($lh) {
                    317: 	my $enc=$lh->maketext('lang_locale');
                    318: 	return ($enc eq 'lang_locale'?'':$enc);
                    319:     } else {
                    320: 	return undef;
                    321:     }
                    322: }
                    323: 
1.4       www       324: # ============================================================== Translate hash
                    325: 
                    326: sub texthash {
                    327:     my %hash=@_;
                    328:     foreach (keys %hash) {
                    329: 	$hash{$_}=&mt($hash{$_});
                    330:     }
                    331:     return %hash;
1.1       www       332: }
                    333: 
                    334: # ========= Get a handle (do not invoke in vain, leave this to access handlers)
                    335: 
                    336: sub get_language_handle {
1.9       www       337:     my $r=shift;
1.31      albertel  338:     if ($r) {
                    339: 	my $headers=$r->headers_in;
                    340: 	$ENV{'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'}=$headers->{'Accept-language'};
                    341:     }
1.52      raeburn   342:     my @languages=&preferred_languages();
1.29      www       343:     $ENV{'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE'}='';
                    344:     $lh=Apache::localize->get_handle(@languages);
1.57      www       345:     $current_language=&current_language();
1.37      albertel  346:     if ($r) {
1.12      albertel  347: 	$r->content_languages([&current_language()]);
1.8       www       348:     }
1.16      www       349: ###    setlocale(LC_ALL,&current_locale);
1.18      www       350: }
                    351: 
                    352: # ========================================================== Localize localtime
1.35      www       353: sub gettimezone {
1.53      raeburn   354:     my ($timezone) = @_;
                    355:     if ($timezone ne '') {
                    356:         if (!DateTime::TimeZone->is_valid_name($timezone)) {
                    357:             $timezone = 'local';
                    358:         }
                    359:         return $timezone;
                    360:     }
                    361:     my $cid = $Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'};  
                    362:     if ($cid ne '') {
                    363:         if ($Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$cid.'.timezone'}) {
                    364:             $timezone = $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$cid.'.timezone'};    
                    365:         } else {
                    366:             my $cdom = $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$cid.'.domain'};
                    367:             if ($cdom ne '') {
                    368:                 my %domdefaults = &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($cdom);
                    369:                 if ($domdefaults{'timezone_def'} ne '') {
                    370:                     $timezone = $domdefaults{'timezone_def'};
                    371:                 }
1.45      raeburn   372:             }
                    373:         }
1.50      raeburn   374:     } elsif ($Apache::lonnet::env{'request.role.domain'} ne '') {
                    375:         my %uroledomdefs = 
                    376:             &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($Apache::lonnet::env{'request.role.domain'});
                    377:         if ($uroledomdefs{'timezone_def'} ne '') {
                    378:             $timezone = $uroledomdefs{'timezone_def'};
                    379:         }
                    380:     } elsif ($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'} ne '') {
                    381:         my %udomdefaults = 
                    382:             &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'});
                    383:         if ($udomdefaults{'timezone_def'} ne '') {
                    384:             $timezone = $udomdefaults{'timezone_def'};
                    385:         }
1.42      albertel  386:     }
1.46      raeburn   387:     if ($timezone ne '') {
                    388:         if (DateTime::TimeZone->is_valid_name($timezone)) {
                    389:             return $timezone;
                    390:         }
                    391:     }
1.42      albertel  392:     return 'local';
1.35      www       393: }
1.18      www       394: 
                    395: sub locallocaltime {
1.59      droeschl  396:     my ($thistime,$timezone) = @_;
1.58      lueken    397: 
1.40      albertel  398:     if (!defined($thistime) || $thistime eq '') {
                    399: 	return &mt('Never');
                    400:     }
1.47      raeburn   401:     if (($thistime < 0) || ($thistime eq 'NaN')) {
                    402:         &Apache::lonnet::logthis("Unexpected time (negative or NaN) '$thistime' passed to lonlocal::locallocaltime");  
                    403:         return &mt('Never');
                    404:     }
                    405:     if ($thistime !~ /^\d+$/) {
                    406:         &Apache::lonnet::logthis("Unexpected non-numeric time '$thistime' passed to lonlocal::locallocaltime");
                    407:         return &mt('Never');
                    408:     }
1.42      albertel  409: 
1.59      droeschl  410:     my $dt = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $thistime)
                    411:                      ->set_time_zone(gettimezone($timezone));
1.58      lueken    412: 
1.59      droeschl  413:     # TimeZone tries to determine the 'local' timezone from $ENV{TZ} if this
                    414:     # fails it searches through various system files. Under certain
                    415:     # circumstances this is an extremly expensive operation.
                    416:     # So after the first run we store the timezone in $ENV{TZ} to significantly
                    417:     # speed up future lookups. 
                    418:     $ENV{TZ} = $dt->time_zone()->name() 
                    419:         if (! $ENV{TZ} && gettimezone($timezone) eq 'local');
1.58      lueken    420: 
1.18      www       421:     if ((&current_language=~/^en/) || (!$lh)) {
1.42      albertel  422: 
                    423: 	return $dt->strftime("%a %b %e %I:%M:%S %P %Y (%Z)");
1.18      www       424:     } else {
                    425: 	my $format=$lh->maketext('date_locale');
                    426: 	if ($format eq 'date_locale') {
1.42      albertel  427: 	    return $dt->strftime("%a %b %e %I:%M:%S %P %Y (%Z)");
1.18      www       428: 	}
1.42      albertel  429: 	my $time_zone  = $dt->time_zone_short_name();
                    430: 	my $seconds    = $dt->second();
                    431: 	my $minutes    = $dt->minute();
                    432: 	my $twentyfour = $dt->hour();
                    433: 	my $day        = $dt->day_of_month();
                    434: 	my $mon        = $dt->month()-1;
                    435: 	my $year       = $dt->year();
1.43      www       436: 	my $wday       = $dt->wday();
                    437:         if ($wday==7) { $wday=0; }
1.42      albertel  438: 	my $month  =(split(/\,/,$lh->maketext('date_months')))[$mon];
1.18      www       439: 	my $weekday=(split(/\,/,$lh->maketext('date_days')))[$wday];
                    440: 	if ($seconds<10) {
                    441: 	    $seconds='0'.$seconds;
                    442: 	}
                    443: 	if ($minutes<10) {
                    444: 	    $minutes='0'.$minutes;
                    445: 	}
                    446: 	my $twelve=$twentyfour;
1.19      www       447: 	my $ampm;
1.18      www       448: 	if ($twelve>12) {
                    449: 	    $twelve-=12;
1.19      www       450: 	    $ampm=$lh->maketext('date_pm');
1.18      www       451: 	} else {
1.19      www       452: 	    $ampm=$lh->maketext('date_am');
1.18      www       453: 	}
1.42      albertel  454: 	foreach ('seconds','minutes','twentyfour','twelve','day','year',
                    455: 		 'month','weekday','ampm') {
1.18      www       456: 	    $format=~s/\$$_/eval('$'.$_)/gse;
                    457: 	}
1.42      albertel  458: 	return $format." ($time_zone)";
1.18      www       459:     }
1.1       www       460: }
                    461: 
1.49      raeburn   462: sub getdatelocale {
                    463:     my ($datelocale,$locale_obj);
                    464:     if ($Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.datelocale'}) {
                    465:         $datelocale = $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.datelocale'};
                    466:     } elsif ($Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'} ne '') {
                    467:         my $cdom = $Apache::lonnet::env{'course.'.$Apache::lonnet::env{'request.course.id'}.'.domain'};
                    468:         if ($cdom ne '') {
                    469:             my %domdefaults = &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($cdom);
                    470:             if ($domdefaults{'datelocale_def'} ne '') {
                    471:                 $datelocale = $domdefaults{'datelocale_def'};
                    472:             }
                    473:         }
                    474:     } elsif ($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'} ne '') {
                    475:         my %udomdefaults = &Apache::lonnet::get_domain_defaults($Apache::lonnet::env{'user.domain'});
                    476:         if ($udomdefaults{'datelocale_def'} ne '') {
                    477:             $datelocale = $udomdefaults{'datelocale_def'};
                    478:         }
                    479:     }
                    480:     if ($datelocale ne '') {
                    481:         eval {
                    482:             $locale_obj = DateTime::Locale->load($datelocale);
                    483:         };
                    484:         if (!$@) {
                    485:             if ($locale_obj->id() eq $datelocale) {
                    486:                 return $locale_obj;
                    487:             }
                    488:         }
                    489:     }
                    490:     return $locale_obj;
                    491: }
                    492: 
1.51      jms       493: =pod 
                    494: 
                    495: =item * normalize_string
                    496: 
                    497: Normalize string (reduce fragility in the lexicon files)
1.49      raeburn   498: 
1.51      jms       499: This normalizes a string to reduce fragility in the lexicon files of
                    500: huge messages (such as are used by the helper), and allow useful
                    501: formatting: reduce all consecutive whitespace to a single space,
                    502: and remove all HTML
                    503: 
                    504: =cut
1.17      bowersj2  505: 
                    506: sub normalize_string {
                    507:     my $s = shift;
                    508:     $s =~ s/\s+/ /g;
                    509:     $s =~ s/<[^>]+>//g;
1.22      bowersj2  510:     # Pop off beginning or ending spaces, which aren't good
                    511:     $s =~ s/^\s+//;
                    512:     $s =~ s/\s+$//;
1.17      bowersj2  513:     return $s;
                    514: }
1.22      bowersj2  515: 
1.51      jms       516: =pod 
                    517: 
                    518: =item * ns
                    519: 
                    520: alias for normalize_string; recommend using it only in the lexicon
                    521: 
                    522: =cut
                    523: 
1.22      bowersj2  524: sub ns {
                    525:     return normalize_string(@_);
                    526: }
                    527: 
1.51      jms       528: =pod
                    529: 
                    530: =item * mtn
                    531: 
                    532: mtn: call the mt function and the normalization function easily.
                    533: Returns original non-normalized string if there was no translation
                    534: 
                    535: =cut
                    536: 
1.22      bowersj2  537: sub mtn (@) {
                    538:     my @args = @_; # don't want to modify caller's string; if we
                    539: 		   # didn't care about that we could set $_[0]
                    540: 		   # directly
                    541:     $args[0] = normalize_string($args[0]);
                    542:     my $translation = &mt(@args);
                    543:     if ($translation ne $args[0]) {
                    544: 	return $translation;
                    545:     } else {
                    546: 	return $_[0];
                    547:     }
1.27      www       548: }
                    549: 
                    550: # ---------------------------------------------------- Replace MT{...} in files
                    551: 
                    552: sub transstatic {
                    553:     my $strptr=shift;
                    554:     $$strptr=~s/MT\{([^\}]*)\}/&mt($1)/gse;
                    555: }
                    556: 
1.41      albertel  557: =pod 
                    558: 
                    559: =item * mt_escape
                    560: 
                    561: mt_escape takes a string reference and escape the [] in there so mt
                    562: will leave them as is and not try to expand them
                    563: 
                    564: =cut
                    565: 
                    566: sub mt_escape {
                    567:     my ($str_ref) = @_;
                    568:     $$str_ref =~s/~/~~/g;
                    569:     $$str_ref =~s/([\[\]])/~$1/g;
                    570: }
                    571: 
1.1       www       572: 1;
                    573: 
                    574: __END__

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