[Openinteract-dev] OI2 i18n support

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

As I recently mentioned on the -help list I hope to be doing some 
work in the near future to give i18n support to OI2. This would 
come in two fashions:

  * be able to navigate to a particular page in the document tree 
based on language. So you'd have something like:

    /en/about/company.html
    /ru/about/company.html

And a user requesting:

   http://mysite/about/company.html

would get directed to the right page based on browser or session 
or user settings. One of the reasons I think the '/lang/...' 
setup is useful is security -- you can setup the '/ru/...' tree 
so your Russian folks can have WRITE access only to their docs, 
the '/es/...' tree so your Spanish folks can do their thing, etc.

  * message bundle-type functionality so you can setup a file (or 
database table, or whatever) of keys for substitution in your 
templates:

  # use a key with variable substitution
  <h1>[% msg( 'company.welcome', 'Optiron' ) %]

  # use a key by itself
  <p>[% msg( 'company.intro' ) %]</p>

If you've got experience in this area please chime in with ideas.

Later,

Chris

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Chris Winters (ch...@cw...)
Building enterprise-capable snack solutions since 1988.