Natural language support objects
- Natural language support objects
NLSO, or Natural Language Support Objects, is a software library being developed as an open-source project. Its purpose is to provide a tool for easily translating web sites and applications into multiple languages.
Natural Language Support Objects were created by Ivan Peter Gan. The class library attempts to manage language-dependent resource strings through database tables (one for each language). This allows for systematic selection of the language-appropriate terminology.
Projects
The NLSO projects are divided into three distinct areas:
#NLSO-WEB [ [http://nlso-web.sf.net NLSO-WEB] ] , which deals with web-site specifics using PHP/MySQL;
#NLSO-ADDRESS [ [http://nlso-address.sf.net NLSO-ADDRESS] ] , designed to enhance the NLSO family by providing address information both in english and the native language, and
#NLSO_OBJECTS [ [http://nlso-objects.sf.net NLSO-OBJECTS] ] — the most difficult to attain, as commercial compilers are supplied in compiled form and can not be modified by end users.
Therefore, the project has now turned to the opensource project "Lazarus," which uses the Free Pascal Compiler.
NLSO-ADDRESS [ [http://sf.net/projects/nlso-address NLSO-ADDRESS] ] is currently being constructed with the Lazarus development system, it uses UTF-8 encoding to allow the display of address data in multiple scripts
The system is designed to exchange non personal address data with a central server so that address data can be shared globally. This will lead to the ability to print address data in English and Hebrew for letters bound to Israel or English and Chinese for letters bound for China.
Goals
The goals of these projects are:
#to reduce translation workload;
#to enable end users to translate applications into their native or preferred language;
#to share translation information among web servers and applications, in order to collectively reduce replication of translation effort, and
#to provide accurately localized address information, in order to improve mail delivery.
Considerations of the cultural impact of any changes to the website or application are left to the developer, being beyond the scope of NLSO.
Notes
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