Re: [Pbwebgui-development] new internationalization

[Christian H. <ch...@ng...>]

On 2004-06-18, at 05.41, JT Smith wrote:

> The following is my recommendation for the new internationalization 
> format.
>
> Before I get too far I should say that I've investigated the old 
> standby: gettext. It won't work for WebGUI for these reasons:
>
> -It can't do HTML.

Thats good, because this data has very little to do with presentation.

> - You have to be careful with special characters.

If you keep your data in a unicode format, like utf-8 it wont be an 
issue.

> - It won't be backwards compatible with our current system so all of 
> the work the translators have done would have to be redone, and all of 
> the code in WebGUI would have to go through and be replaced.

That's probably a hit you'll have to take sooner or later.

> - It has a lot of binary prereqs. (I don't like adding those if I can 
> help it.)

Why is that bad?

> - It doesn't provide as big of a performance increase as what I'm 
> about to suggest.

Nothing prevent you from preload the data/classes when apache start.

> lib/WebGUI/i18n/<language>/<namespace>.pm

This is a common mistake, l10n has more to do with culture and language 
then language.

Once your app is i18n you can add l10ns.

A good resource is: http://www.i18nguy.com/

Have a look at Locale::Maketext::Lexicon at CPAN, it can make your life 
easier.

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Christian Hansen
nGmedia
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