Re: [htmltmpl] language support

[Martin S. <sa...@ic...>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:33:23PM +0200, Markus Spring wrote:
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> Martin Sarfy wrote:
> | Hi folks,
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> | I lack multiple language support in HTML::Template.
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> My way to do it is as following:
> 
> 1 Have Templates in one basic language
> 2 Use Locale::Maketext as basic functionality to retrieve localized text 
> strings
> 3 Use template filters during load_tmpl to localize text between tags as 
> well as
> text in certain tag attributes, especially alt="" and title="". Replacement
> strings come from Locale::Maketext
> 4 localize your variable values from inside your program before submitting 
> those
> as template variables
> 
> 3 is done by subclassing HTML::Template to recognize filter arguments as a 
> part
> of the cache key (idea and code from Cees Hek), so that localization of the
> templates is done once before caching.
> 
> If there is interest for this solution, I could pack up the code but it 
> might
> take some days as I am in holidays.

Thanks, I'll do it this way.

Happy holidays

Martin