Re: [Noffle-devel] internationalization of noffle pseudo articles

[<joh...@gm...>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:53:26PM -0000, Jim Hague wrote:
> On 24-Mar-2003 joh...@gm... wrote:
> > I think I could assist in internationalization of the
> > noffle-pseude-articles (those messages getting return in pseudo.c).
> > With this patch it would be possible to have a french, german and
> > english version of e.g. the "article marked for download".
> > 
> > There are some decisions I would like to get examined before I start to code.
> > 
> > +I would suggest to have a file in /etc/noffle/noffle.articles.{ccTLD},
> > {ccTLD} being the country-Top-Level-Domain for the country generally
> > associated with that language, e.g. de for german, fr for france ...
> > 
> I think it would be easier to have one file per message, perhaps filed under a
> language-specific directory, e.g. /etc/noffle/templates.en_GB/general_info.
> Specify the language in the config file, or pick it up from the environment
> (LANG) if it is not specified in the config. Then see if a file exists in
> this order (for LANG=en_GB): templates.en_GB/filename, templates.en/filename,
> templates/filename. Keep the current hard-coded defaults in case none are
> found.
But than we have to ensure that the user has a directory in /etc/, not
just a file. We would have to change CONFIGFILE to CONFIGDIR and of
course make some minor corrections now and then. 

So long...
Johannes Madel