US/UK switch in admin

[David M. Graham]

Mark,

The best part about this new system is that it does cover regional variations in specific languages rather completely.  Certainly much more completely than the previous system.

UK English will be implemented as en_UK with its own language files and tools.  So, weights and address formats will certainly be addressed.

David

The UK/US switch was great in the fact that it allowed things like DOB to be input in the correct format in the UK.

A few things still used to have to be changed manually so i hope that this new system will allow for this to happen.

A couple of  things that stick in my head are:

Addresses - The State/County field was something that was always being changed by me on any store i built. I'm not sure if it can be done so when selecting the UK, it produces a different set of field tags?

So when selecting US it formats the account address page in the correct way, and when selecting the UK, it could display something like:

Address 1
Address 2
Town/City
County
Post Code


Another thing was the weights, I was forever changing the lbs to kgs as this is what we mostly ship in.

not sure if this is at all possible, but thought i would mention it.

Thanks again

[inetbiz]

Does the UK postal system using any sort of bar coding? Since we already have USPS ship module, is there a UK module as well for their postal service? I'd like to eventually see MUCH more use of any API provided by a government postal service.  The US Postal Service API allows that IF a package is being shipped via their service, you can do API address correction and add the zip+4 then print out the shipping label via PDF for those that have label printers or label sticky paper.

The US also uses bar coding on the recipient section. Could the extended information provided in the barcode look up help route mail, faster? Maybe someone would like to post a feature request and sponsor the issue? I don't believe we've hacked the mantis tracker to accept sponsor payments, yet.  :-(

[David M. Graham]

While it has been some time since we last posted here, I think it is pertinent to add that substantial progress has been made in EOS development, and its about time to see some work starting on the en_UK language files.

David

[zip1]

With the new Country and state methods the address format has been fixed.  OSC clones uses 4 address formats. EOS uses all 11 that the UN Postal authority recognizes. I believe that format 11 is the correct one for the UK in EOS. 

 Customers Name
 Street address
 City Name
 State Name
 Zip Code
 United Kingdom
Or least this is the format in the world zones contribution.

There will be a way to build your own address formats and assign them to a country.


When you add a country now, the known states are also loaded when you remove a country all the states are also removed. You can also remove and add state separately if you wish.

The next step is dealing with versions or dialects of a single language. At the moment each variation will have it's own language directory. Beyond that it depends on what information I can gather. Which is the way i18n internalization is done. I have been gather information for the countries as listed in ISO3166_1.

[CypherUK]

The UK/US switch was great in the fact that it allowed things like DOB to be input in the correct format in the UK.

A few things still used to have to be changed manually so i hope that this new system will allow for this to happen.

A couple of  things that stick in my head are:

Addresses - The State/County field was something that was always being changed by me on any store i built. I'm not sure if it can be done so when selecting the UK, it produces a different set of field tags?

So when selecting US it formats the account address page in the correct way, and when selecting the UK, it could display something like:

Address 1
Address 2
Town/City
County
Post Code


Another thing was the weights, I was forever changing the lbs to kgs as this is what we mostly ship in.

not sure if this is at all possible, but thought i would mention it.

Thanks again

[zip1]

In creloaded I had added a US UK switch for the English language. In hind site this was not a good way to handle internalization.   In order to do internalization correctly variation of the a a language will need to be in a seperate language directory.

Like en_US, en_GB, en_CA,

After spending time an several internalization I think we are going to have to adopt several ISO and RFC to make any internalization system work.