Hebrew alphabet for the quick search

[yauzi]

Hebrew alphabet for the quick search

[crowbot]

You can do this by creating a file in your theme in lib/views/public_body/_alphabet.html.erb. If this file exists, it will override the existing app/views/public_body/_alphabet.html.erb template. Example content could be something like:

<%- "\u05D0".upto("\u05EA") do |l| -%>
    <%= link_to_unless (@tag == l), l, list_public_bodies_path(:tag => l.downcase) %>
<% end %>

[crowbot]

If you want to keep English as a language option, then the file for Hebrew needs to be in the theme as lib/views/public_body/_alphabet.he-IL.html.erb instead.

[crowbot]

Having looked at this a bit more today, I think getting the links to produce the right lists of public bodies for the two languages may depend on getting a core alaveteli issue resolved: mysociety#1000

[yehudab]

@crowbot thanks. I'll be watching mysociety#1000 and check again once it's resolved and merged into our fork.

[mhl]

This made me think about the problem of how to generate the correct alphabet links automatically based on the locale. I think this probably isn't worth it, given that, as @crowbot explains above, overriding the alphabet list is easy to do in a theme, but, for the record, it could be done using data from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository, which includes data on "index characters" for a locale:

• http://cldr.unicode.org/development/development-process/design-proposals/index-characters

For example, the exemplarCharacters element for Hebrew is here:

http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/browser/tags/release-23-1/common/main/he.xml#L1111

Creating a gem that made that data easily accessible for Rails applications might be useful to the world at large, but perhaps not a good use of development time on Alaveteli at the moment.