Working with the Beacons files
Naming Convention

 

Very important! Before you upload the file, you have to add your language designator (see instructions here).
For the example, I will use the Hebrew language.

english beacons of light: 2008_10-PowertothePeople.php
hebrew beacons of light: 2008_10-PowertothePeople-he.php (I have add the bold text).
Hebrew beacons of light print version: 2008_10-PowertothePeopleTXT-he.html (I have add the TXT and save the file as .html, not .php)

Please be very carefully on that, because if you will upload the Beacons without your language type (-he as our example for Hebrew),
you will overight the English file which all the teams need for their job. In case that this happen, please email me as soon as possible
to upload again the english version. In the meanwhile, fix your file with the proper language type (-he) and upload it.

Working in many languages and storing all the translations in the ame directory, it becomes necessary to identify at a glance,
the language and type of file one is viewing while in the transbeacon directories. 

For this purpose we are using a two letter language designator which will alter the name of the basic
beacon for that month and make it unique to that particular translation team's home language. 

For the most part the language designators are western characters which reflect the name of the language as spelled
in that language.  For example the Croatian language, displayed as written in Croatian would be, " Hrvatski ",
so for a language designator that team will use " -hr " for their language designator. 

In some cases it is not possible, as in the case of Chinese, which  we display as, " -zh ". 
At any rate, if you need to know what the language designator for your team is then just look over
this table and you will see the one that your team should be using.  

 

aa = Afar	ab = Abkhazian	af = Afrikaans	am = Amharic	ar = Arabic
as = Assamese	ay = Aymara	az = Azerbaijani	ba = Bashkir	be = Byelorussian
bh = Bihari	bi = Bislama	bn = Bengali	bo = Tibetan	br = Breton
ca = Catalan	co = Corsican	cs = Czech	cy = Welsh	da = Danish
de = German	dz = Bhutani	el = Greek	en = English	eo = Esperanto
es = Spanish	et = Estonian	fi = Finnish	fj = Fiji	fo = Faroese
fr = French	fy = Frisian	ga = Irish	gd = Scots Gaelic	gl = Galician
gn = Guarani	gu = Gujarati	ha = Hausa	he = Hebrew	hi = Hindi
hr = Croatian	hu = Hungarian	hy = Armenian	ia = Interlingua	id = Indonesian
ie = Interlingue	ik = Inupiak	is = Icelandic	it = Italian	iu = Inuktitut
ja = Japanese	jw = Javanese	ka = Georgian	kk = Kazakh	kl = Greenlandic
km = Cambodian	kn = Kannada	ko = Korean	ks = Kashmiri	ku = Kurdish
ky = Kirghiz	la = Latin	ln = Lingala	lo = Laothian	lt = Lithuanian
lv = Latvian	mg = Malagasy	mi = Maori	mk = Macedonian	ml = Malayalam
mn = Mongolian	mo = Moldavian	mr = Marathi	ms = Malay	mt = Maltese
my = Burmese	na = Nauru	ne = Nepali	nl = Dutch	no = Norwegian
oc = Occitan	om = (Afan) Oromo	or = Oriya	pa = Punjabi	pl = Polish
ps = Pashto	pt = Portuguese	qu = Quechua	rm = Rhaeto	rn = Kirundi
ro = Romanian	ru = Russian	rw = Kinyarwanda	sa = Sanskrit	sd = Sindhi
sg = Sangho	sh = Serbo	si = Sinhalese	sk = Slovak	sl = Slovenian
sm = Samoan	sn = Shona	so = Somali	sq = Albanian	sr = Serbian
ss = Siswati	st = Sesotho	su = Sundanese	sv = Swedish	sw = Swahili
ta = Tamil	te = Telugu	tg = Tajik	th = Thai	ti = Tigrinya
tk = Turkmen	tl = Tagalog	tn = Setswana	to = Tonga	tr = Turkish
ts = Tsonga	tt = Tatar	tw = Twi	ug = Uighur	uk = Ukrainian
ur = Urdu	uk = Ukrainian	ur = Urdu	uz = Uzbek	vi = Vietnamese
vo = Volapuk	wo = Wolof	xh = Xhosa	yi = Yiddish	yo = Yoruba
za = Zhuang	zh = Chinese	zu = Zulu

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