Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Re: the last crusade (is: Re: One among many)

[Karsten D. <k.d...@tu...>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:40:27AM -0500, Brian W. Brown wrote:
> > Ah, about the language system: yes, it may generally
> > cause a performance slowdown... this
> > could be considered by some people a right price to pay
> > to have runtime per-user localization.
> 
> Obviously, the current language system could use some
> improvement. I do, however, very much like a package-time
> translation system. A few thoughts:
[...]
> o I have never understood the need for runtime translation (if
> someone wants to explain, please do). What good is the ability
> to display, say the text "Main Menu" in many different
> languages when all of your content is locked-in to the
> language in which it was written?

I agree. This would in no way be of any help. But I would love to see
even that: multi language content. As soon as the "core language" can
be set during run time, it (would|should) be relatively easy to add a
"lang" field to e.g. the article database to distinguish between
different version of one article (one would have to connect those,
etc., but you get the point).

And voila - a multi language capable CMS. Which is not too useful for
a university setting (you might argue), unless you consider students
from foreign countries (who, again, should speak the language of their
university's country, ok :-).

But we were asked to set up phpWS for a school here in Germany, and
they want to have the thing multi-language (that might rule out phpWS,
although this would be sad) because this is a german-italian
school. Or think about international partnerships between whatever you
can imagine...

Thoughts?

Regards,
Karsten
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