Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n res updated : fixed

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

Alistair Young wrote:

> There's nothing stopping someone changing the language to "ru" and getting
> an unusable bod.

Shouldn't Bod just display the default strings (english?) if the 
translated version of some resource doesn't exist.

Otherwise we get to the situation that someone does a translation to 
french for example. Then we add some new tools (eg  my ACL tool) which 
uses i18n.

Now we have the situation where unless someone translates the ACL tool 
french users won't be able to upgrade as they will no longer be able to 
select french as the language.

We need to have the idea of a default language that the localiser falls 
back to if it can't find the localised version of that string. This way 
we don't have to delay software releases so that all the translators can 
do thier work. Isn't it better to have some parts of the application 
localised than none?


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