Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Internationalization
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From: Ian B. <ia...@co...> - 2001-08-02 17:41:06
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Mike Orr <ir...@se...> wrote: > > How are you planning to handle internationalization? > > What needs to be internationalized? Is there anything language-specific > or locale-specific in how Cheetah works? Maybe he means internationalization like gettext or whatever -- string substitution of languages. UTF-8 should work fine with Cheetah, of course, since it looks like ASCII text. Dealing with other encodings can get to be a pain... but hopefully that can just be ignored. One way would be to abstract your text in an object, and do things like $lang.helloMessage. Other string substitution is probably beyond the scope of what Cheetah does. The actual directives and such are just tokens, which happen to have English cognates. This is pervasive in programming, so I don't see a justification for internationalizing them. Ian |