Localizing OpenClinica Hiroaki Honshuku: SQA 1

© What is Character Encoding?  Morse Code (1840) → Latin Alphabet  ASCII (1963)  The American Standard Code for Information Interchange  Characters, Numerals, Symbols, Control Characters  7-bit: 0~127  0x41 = letter ‘A’, 0x61 = letter ‘a’  ISO-8859-n  8-bit:  iso : Latin-1, covers most of European Language  iso : Cyrillic alphabet  No CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) support  Morse Code (1840) → Latin Alphabet  ASCII (1963)  The American Standard Code for Information Interchange  Characters, Numerals, Symbols, Control Characters  7-bit: 0~127  0x41 = letter ‘A’, 0x61 = letter ‘a’  ISO-8859-n  8-bit:  iso : Latin-1, covers most of European Language  iso : Cyrillic alphabet  No CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) support 2

© What is Character Encoding (cont.)  iso versus iso iso iso A0x65A0x176 B0x66B0x178

© What is Character Encoding (cont.)  iso versus iso  CJK Encoding Mess  Chinese: Big5 (Traditional), GB18030 (Simplified)  Japanese: iso-2022-JP, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS  Korean: EUC-KR, KS C 5861  iso versus iso  CJK Encoding Mess  Chinese: Big5 (Traditional), GB18030 (Simplified)  Japanese: iso-2022-JP, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS  Korean: EUC-KR, KS C iso iso A0x65A0x176 B0x66B0x178

© What is Character Encoding (cont.)  iso versus iso  CJK Encoding Mess  Chinese: Big5 (Traditional), GB18030 (Simplified)  Japanese: iso-2022-JP, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS  Korean: EUC-KR, KS C 5861  Windows propriety Encoding  CP1252, CP932, etc  iso versus iso  CJK Encoding Mess  Chinese: Big5 (Traditional), GB18030 (Simplified)  Japanese: iso-2022-JP, EUC-JP, Shift-JIS  Korean: EUC-KR, KS C 5861  Windows propriety Encoding  CP1252, CP932, etc 5 iso iso A0x65A0x176 B0x66B0x178

© Unicode  1887: Apple + Xerox  1991: Unicode Consortium  1887: Apple + Xerox  1991: Unicode Consortium 6

© Unicode  1887: Apple + Xerox  1991: Unicode Consortium  UTF-8: 1,112,064 Code Points  Standard  ASCII Compatible  Unix, Linux, Mac OS  Big Endian  1887: Apple + Xerox  1991: Unicode Consortium  UTF-8: 1,112,064 Code Points  Standard  ASCII Compatible  Unix, Linux, Mac OS  Big Endian 7

© Unicode  1887: Apple + Xerox  1991: Unicode Consortium  UTF-8: 1,112,064 Code Points  Standard  ASCII Compatible  Unix, Linux, Mac OS  Big Endian  UTF-16 (UCS-2) : 1,112,064 Code Points  Windows Only  Little Endian: Requires BOM (Bite Order Marker)  1887: Apple + Xerox  1991: Unicode Consortium  UTF-8: 1,112,064 Code Points  Standard  ASCII Compatible  Unix, Linux, Mac OS  Big Endian  UTF-16 (UCS-2) : 1,112,064 Code Points  Windows Only  Little Endian: Requires BOM (Bite Order Marker) 8

© OpenClinica and i18n  i18n Support since  OpenClinica i18n Work in Progress  Data Mart  Response OptionText  CRF Name  Discrepancy Note data passing  Escaping Ctrl Chars and MS Propriety Chars  Should detect at CRF upload  Hard-coded strings  Missing encode declaration in some Export formats  i18n Support since  OpenClinica i18n Work in Progress  Data Mart  Response OptionText  CRF Name  Discrepancy Note data passing  Escaping Ctrl Chars and MS Propriety Chars  Should detect at CRF upload  Hard-coded strings  Missing encode declaration in some Export formats 9

© Microsoft Specific issues  Display issues on Windows  Pre-Win7, GUI was not fully UTF-8 compatible  Displayed character corruption after saving data  Viewing extracted data  Use UTF-8 compatible Text Editor  Never Copy/Paste from MSOffice  Display issues on Windows  Pre-Win7, GUI was not fully UTF-8 compatible  Displayed character corruption after saving data  Viewing extracted data  Use UTF-8 compatible Text Editor  Never Copy/Paste from MSOffice 10

© Demonstration  Search Subjects and Tables  CRF and Data Entry  Discrepancy Notes  Rules  Data Import  Data Extract  Search Subjects and Tables  CRF and Data Entry  Discrepancy Notes  Rules  Data Import  Data Extract 11

© How to Localize  Documentation  documents/openclinica-and-internationalization documents/openclinica-and-internationalization  UTF-8 Converter  i18n strings needs to be Hex value   Calendar Widget can take UTF-8 strings  Pseudo Translation  Insert one distinctive non-ASCII character  Duplicate English properties files first  Search “ = “ and replace by “ = \u8a66”  Documentation  documents/openclinica-and-internationalization documents/openclinica-and-internationalization  UTF-8 Converter  i18n strings needs to be Hex value   Calendar Widget can take UTF-8 strings  Pseudo Translation  Insert one distinctive non-ASCII character  Duplicate English properties files first  Search “ = “ and replace by “ = \u8a66” 12

© How to Localize (cont.) 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 13

© How to Localize (cont.) 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 2. Rename duplicated files to your Locale NO 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 2. Rename duplicated files to your Locale NO 14

© How to Localize (cont.) 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 2. Rename duplicated files to your Locale 3. Date Format  Edit format.properties file 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 2. Rename duplicated files to your Locale 3. Date Format  Edit format.properties file 15

© How to Localize (cont.) 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 2. Rename duplicated files to your Locale 3. Date Format  Edit format.properties file 4. Translate per GUI page  Avoids possible legacy strings  Use Text Editor that supports global search 1. Duplicate English properties files  Exclude licensing.properties 2. Rename duplicated files to your Locale 3. Date Format  Edit format.properties file 4. Translate per GUI page  Avoids possible legacy strings  Use Text Editor that supports global search 16

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