i18n Pilot Project

Pilot Project

An initial pilot project was completed which looked at the client loan creation pipeline. Loan creation consists of 4 screens:

1. select loan instance (product)
2. enter loan account information
3. review installments
4. preview loan account information

The goals were to:

1. Understand the issues related to the areas mentioned below enough to make estimates for I18n across the application
2. Complete a pseudo localization of the screen or screens mentioned above to test the I18n and understand the time and effort involved to do I18n.

We will gather information relating to the following

• Property files - strings - status / effort to I18n
• Property files composite messages - status / effort to 18n
• Existing I18n _ Does the locale mechanism work / effort to make it work. _ Check the following situations:
  • Labels
  • Values (lookup_values)
  • Customized labels and values (overridden by the user in the admin section)
• Currency - can data be entered and displayed correctly
• Dates -can dates be entered and displayed correctly (we may be able to get away with the current state because Mifos uses DDMMYYYY at the moment)
• Times - are there any? (not in this pilot)
• Numbers - can they be entered and displayed correctly ?