openlibhums / openlibhums/janeway

Multilingual support for sign languages

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Description

User story

As an editor of a journal that publishes articles in multiple sign languages (DSDJ), I need to be able to encode more languages than just sgn ("sign languages"). These are the ones I need most:

  • American Sign Language - ase
  • International Sign - ils
  • Swedish Sign Language - swl
  • French Sign Language - fsl
  • Italian Sign Language - ise
  • Japanese Sign Language - jsl

Proposed solution

Support the full range of ISO-639-3 using Django Languages Plus.

Alternatives

Add just the requested languages to our current hard-coded list of choices.

Context

Freshdesk 8127

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the current hard-coded language choices and reviewing how Django Languages Plus could provide the requested language codes. Done means the platform supports the listed sign languages, or the full ISO-639-3 range if that proposal is adopted, without losing existing choices.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
django, python
Domain
internationalization, localization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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