By default, all the 'phrases' that EPrints displays to users are in the English language. However, adding support for other languages is straightforward. The examples page lists existing multi-language EPrints repositories.
Follow these steps to add support for other languages:
1. Install Language Files
The EPrints community has already translated the default EPrints phrases into several languages.
Language-specific phrases are grouped into several different files:
- System phrases
- generic system phrases (e.g. error messages)
- Archive phrases
- phrases specific to an archive
- Citations
- citation style for each type of deposit
- Page template
- the 'wrapper' used for every page EPrints displays
- Static pages
- e.g. 'home' page, 'about' page, 'help' page
- Subjects
- the subject tree
Download the required files (or create your own translations), and install them into the archive configuration directory.
Note: if you have customised your repository's metadata, you may need to edit the files to suit.
2. Configure Language Support
Specify the following in the primary archive configuration file:
- The list of languages the repository will support
- The default language
- Translations of the repository name into each of the supported languages
3. Generate Multi-Language Pages
Generate multi-language versions of the static, views, and abstracts pages.
The pages displayed will now be chosen in accordance with the language settings of visitor's browser.
4. Enable Language Switching (Optional)
Add a Change Language button to each template page to allow visitors to switch between displayed languages.
5. Multi-Language Data Entry (Optional)
Add the multilang property to each field that should accept multi-language data entry.