Re: [binarycloud-dev] language variant source files

[Alex B. <en...@tu...>]

> Hi all,
> 
> I am the one of the poor Turkish guy have to fight with
> bloody localization issues and i believe there are too many
> non English citizens of the world have the same pain in the ass.
> 
> Directory based language structure is very good for now to the homo
> sapiens high level technology :=) Very useful for images and files.
> 
> i'd like to follow
>   <img src="/resources/fr/images/foo/foo.gif">
> 
> It is clear and not affects the flow.
> 
> CSS idea is good. It helps to solve most of the problems but what
> about a stuff like OK, Cancel, next, preview buttons etc.? If we don't
> use images there is a big trouble waiting.
> In Phpnuke, fellows used the translate method and separate language
> files. Seems okay but make it slow the all code and site.
> I am still looking the right solution on it.

The above is exactly what we do:

resources/images/foo.fr.gif and foo.de.gif
in the source tree are:

resources/fr/images/foo.gif
 and 
resources/de/images/foo.gif

in the make tree.

> I want to talk about two other major problems.
> 
> 1. Sorting tables in specific language.
> 2. Date time trouble.
> 
> I know that we should deal with OS and software specific issues about them.
> But i strongly prefer to stay in cross platform as could as i do.

1: sorting, as I think the only way to deal with charsets properly is to put
everything in utf-8, that means sorting would be a function of char order in
utf, which I have admittedly little experience with.

date/time is much easier, as you can standardize the dates you store in the
DB, and use simple routines to display dates differently.

i.e. you use "date/time" format in presentation only, all data storage is
homogenous.

> Note: Of course i am ready to translate parts to Turkish :=)

cool! :)

_alex