[WG: I18N & L10N] [maint] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-14453

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi David,

If the event types are keyed on a number, use those. Nothing should be keyed on mutable strings.

cheers,
Steve


On 29/11/2010, at 4:46 AM, DAVID ROLDAN MARTINEZ wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm about to start working on this i18n blocker bug: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-14453
> 
> To import events from a csv file, you must specify the type of the event. For example:
> Example Event 1, This is the description for event #1, 9/1/2008, 11:00 AM, 1:00, Deadline, Taubman Library 2919
> 
> 'Deadline' is not internationalized. In fact, if you specify 'Término de plazo' instead of 'Deadline', event type is not recognized properly. One quite straightforward approach to this problem would be to use a numeric event type (1=Deadline, 2=Quiz...and so on), as number are not language-dependent.
> 
> There also problems with dates. You'll find a detalied description in the JIRA: http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-14453
> 
> Before to fix it, I would like feedback community about using numbers  (1=Deadline, 2=Quiz...and so on) or codes (event.deadline = deadline, event.quiz = quiz, ...) in the import file. Any suggestion/help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> David
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