Re: [Bodington-developers] Localisation issue

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

it's in there now and it works so I'd say leave it. The reason it's 
there is not a lot changes when you change the language as all the 
Resource strings are in the db.

We have help buildings etc which need to be translated to Gaelic. When 
you look at it, the templates don't provide much output when compared 
with the resources.

There will be Resources which don't need localised, such as language 
specific content - no point translating a teach yourself Gaelic course 
to Russian but there will also be Resources that do need translated, 
such as help buildings, navigation etc. If a Resource is common to all 
users then it'll need translated.

Alistair


On 10 May 2005, at 11:58, Matthew Buckett wrote:

> 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 you still display out of date translated version?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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