Re: [htmltmpl] HTML::Template and Locale::Maketext

[Mathew R. <mat...@re...>]

Translation issues aside, one of the best parts of storing translations =
in a database is that you can quite easily build a web interface to the =
database table.  You write a script which greps your =
source-code/templates so that it inserts the new strings, and deletes =
any unused ones.

This works really well for web pages as you simply set the encoding to =
UTF8, provide a combobox of selectable languages / regions, provide a =
textarea for the string input and a submit button.  As a programmer I =
never need to speak to the translators as they simply use the web =
interface.

The only real issue that the programmer has to do is to set a few extra =
template variables:

   TMPL_VAR document_charset
   TMPL_VAR document_direction
   TMPL_VAR document_language
   TMPL_VAR document_direction_default
   TMPL_VAR document_direction_inverse

The first three should be used in your document headers and occasionaly =
in table headers.  The other two are used for formatting within tables, =
so that your text/image alignment comes out correct for the language.

hope this helps
Mathew