Re: [Bodington-developers] Localisation issue

[Matthew B. <mat...@co...>]

Alistair Young wrote:
> On my travels in qLand I found a potential problem with localisation. 
> Questionnaire responses are stored in the big_strings table. I thought 
> big_strings was for system entites, such as Resources, rather than user 
> submitted data. Localising big_strings en masse via db extract and 
> translator is now much more complicated.

Although I am keen on Bodington having i18n (ability to translate the 
templates and outputted messages) I don't see that being able to 
localize the resources is a "big win". And some issues didn't seem to 
get resolved:

What happens if someone updates the English version of a resource? Do 
you still display out of date translated version?

Won't most installation be creating resources in their own locale?

I think that the localization of resource is a aiming for a small market 
and significantly complicates the Bodington codebase.

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