Japanese Drupal sites

By phppete on 23 Feb 2004 at 06:29 UTC

I'm looking to use Drupal for Japanese sites. I'm wondering if there is a list of sites already using it or if there's discussions of multibyte issues going around already.

Thanks,
P

Comments

Goforward.org

Steven commented 23 February 2004 at 14:05

One site I know of is Goforward.org. The main problem was making search.module work: it tries to build a word-based index, which fails of course on Japanese because words are not separated by spaces. The solution was to use Kakasi to convert content and search strings into kana with spaces before building the index and doing searches on it.

As far as encoding goes, Drupal uses Unicode/UTF8 everywhere, which supports all Japanese characters. Should you wish to use another encoding you will probably run into problems with XML import/export. As of Drupal 4.4 (soon to be released), imported XML is converted into UTF8 using iconv, if it is present, so there s little reason not to use UTF8.
See PHP's Iconv page for more info.

Is there a sort of Japanese language skin and port of Kakasi?

timtak commented 10 March 2004 at 09:26

The Gotoforward site is working nicely. Do I need to speak to the owner, or is there some sort of package in the CVS for dealing with Japanese support?

Xoops is big over here.

Tim

Contact him

Steven commented 14 March 2004 at 15:29

For the Kakasi hacks, contact him. I don't think there is a japanese translation in the contrib CVS repository yet.

Japanese

timtak commented 16 March 2004 at 08:45

Thanks. Will do (contact Kakasi). I cannot even set my country of origin to Japan at the moment, it is not on the list.

I still don't know how to make forums speak to me (tell me when someone responds). This does not seem to be in user settings. Can't find it even on the forums, except someone is saying somewhere that they wanted the function.

http://drupal.org/node/view/6247#9388

Hold on a moment. This post was really recent! Is it true, it seems that it is not possible to subscribe to a forum on drupal.org!

Not so amazing but slightly quirky thing is that even my own posts are displayed as new posts in the "recent messages" section.

But this is completely off topic. I would feel silly starting a new topic about this.

Also I have just realised that gotoforward.org has the kakasi ssearching mod but it is not translated into Japanese. He is using Drupal in English. I am planning to use this with a group of Japanese students.

Tim

translation

killes@www.drop.org commented 17 March 2004 at 19:55

I would welcome your contribution of a translation to Japanese. I am currently working on a improved locale.module which will allow the upload of translations in PO format. The idea is to keep those translations in the cvs repository so that users can easily share their efforts.

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Check contrib modules

Steven commented 17 March 2004 at 20:19

There used to be a notify/subscription module in contrib. Drupal's design makes it easy to add such functionality later in a generic way rather than coding it just for a forum.