Sun Invites You to Join OpenSolaris Documentation Community

New Sun Documentation Center has been launched on May 20, 2008 to provide a single page for easy access to documentation across the various Sun's products. On the Documentation Communities page, Sun invites you to join any of the documentation communities, such as OpenSolaris.org Documentation Community. Part of the Documentation Community work is translation and you are welcome to help us translate the OpenSolaris.org documentation. If you have the skills, don't hesitate to join now.

This is a continuation of my previous entry about roller blogs and their internationalization - Translating your Roller blog. I'll go into more detail about the select box code for switching languages and the associated javascript.

The select box I've shown in my last article displays the text "Select language:" by default. We may prefer it to display the currently selected language.

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The first binary release of OpenSolaris, the open-source operating system, has been released today as OpenSolaris® 2008.05. It comes in a LiveCD version, which you can download, burn as a CD and boot into without touching your current OS by installation. You can play around and install the OpenSolaris to your computer easily then. As the CD contains only the most important software packages, such as OpenOffice, Java, Firefox or Thunderbird, you can run IPS, the new Image Packaging System, which connects to OpenSolaris Package Repository to quickly download and install up-to-date software of your choice. You even don't need to install OpenSolaris to your real computer, you can run a virtual computer with VirtualBox for free and see how OpenSolaris works on your Windows Vista desktop for example. Visit OpenSolaris.com to download or request a free media.

Recently I was dealing with a solution for translating one of the blogs on blogs.sun.com. This article covers some of the ways to enable multiple languages on roller blogs and can be used as a guide for setting up a translated blog. The solution we're aiming for will be similar to Jonathan's blog.

Blogs at blogs.sun.com are powered by Apache Roller. There are multiple ways how to deal with translated content, but first we need to enable internationalization support.

Step 1. - Adjusting the blog preferences

• log in to your roller account and select the right blog
  
• navigate to Preferences
• locate the Internationalization Settings
• adjust the settings as shown on the following image
  

 

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