Re: I18N in OI2 (was: [Openinteract-help] project alive?)

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

On Feb 16, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Teemu Arina wrote:
>> Along with this discussion, I think it would be a good idea to include
>> a 'translate' package with OI2 that allows web-based editing of the
>> translation files. It might not be as slick as kbabel, but it will
>> always be there and will hopefully take care of the most common tasks.
>
> Great idea. I think that would make the translation process very easy. 
> A new
> translator could start immediatly still while the interest lasts. 
> ...and
> doesn't even require downloading the sources or anything.

Right. Plus they could do it from anywhere.

> I was also thinking how one could translate programs while using it but
> technically implementing it might be too much of work. Translation 
> process
> usually requires the translator to see the context in order to come up 
> with a
> correct translation.

It's a small implementation detail, but one thing I planned on doing: 
create a new logging category 'OI2.TRANSLATE'. If set to 'DEBUG' then 
with every message printed out we prepend the message key. So when you 
ask for:

  MSG( 'user.welcome', user.full_name )

You get something like:

  [user.welcome] Welcome to my website Chris Winters!

or even to be more explicit where the boundaries are:

  [user.welcome Welcome to my website Chris Winters!]

Chris

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Chris Winters
Creating enterprise-capable snack systems since 1988