Re: [Web-erp-developers] Translations

[skaill <sk...@ro...>]

Phil, take a look below at a snippet of code from InfoCentral's config file.
They have already made an alias function, set the appropriate variables and
done a fix for some inconsistency.  It's probably what any of us would end
up writing anyway and if nothing else is a further insight into gettext...

Steve

// Internationalization (I18n) support
// Right now, InfoCentral supports US English (en_US), Italian (it_IT),
French (fr_FR), and German (de_DE)
$sLanguage = 'en_US';

//
// SETTINGS END HERE.  DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE
//

putenv("LANG=$sLanguage");
setlocale(LC_ALL, $sLanguage);

// Get numeric and monetary locale settings.
$aLocaleInfo = localeconv();

// This is needed to avoid some bugs in various libraries like fpdf.
setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 'C');

// patch some missing data for Italian.  This shouldn't be necessary!
if ($sLanguage == "it_IT")
{
 $aLocaleInfo["thousands_sep"] = ".";
 $aLocaleInfo["frac_digits"] = "2";
}

if (function_exists('bindtextdomain'))
{
 $domain = 'messages';

 $sLocaleDir = "locale";
 if (!is_dir($sLocaleDir))
  $sLocaleDir = "../" . $sLocaleDir;

 bindtextdomain($domain, $sLocaleDir);
 textdomain($domain);
}
else
{
 if ($sLanguage != 'en_US')
 {
  // PHP array version of the l18n strings
  $sLocaleMessages = "locale/" . $sLanguage . "/LC_MESSAGES/messages.php";

  if (!is_readable($sLocaleMessages))
   $sLocaleMessages = "../" . $sLocaleMessages;

  require ($sLocaleMessages);

  // replacement implementation of gettext for broken installs
  function gettext($text)
  {
   global $locale;

   if (!empty($locale[$text]))
    return $locale[$text];
   else
    return $text;
  }
 }
 else
 {
  // dummy gettext function
  function gettext($text)
  {
   return $text;
  }
 }

 function _($text) { return gettext($text); }
}

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daintrees" <p.d...@pa...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Web-erp-developers] Translations


>
> I have been doing a little research ...
>
>
http://www.appliedlanguage.com/articles/internationalization_using_php_and_get_text.shtml
>
> actually wrapping all strings in the gettext() function allows the strings
> to be extracted automatically - this seems like a huge bonus to me. I
think
> I will experiment a bit and see if I can get a couple of scripts going -
the
> only real downer with this is that I only speak english perhaps I could
give
> my .po file to Rom to translate so we can see how a few scripts work.
>
> It seems pretty straightforward!
>
> Phil
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "skaill" <sk...@ro...>
> To: <web...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 8:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Web-erp-developers] Translations
>
>
> > Sounds good.  I'll be there.  To do the majority of the work we just
need
> to
> > find who all is involved, split the pages up between us and decide
whether
> > to use gettext() or an alias like _().
> >
> > >From there each of us just finds all the strings in their pages and
puts
> in
> > the function call.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Daintrees" <p.d...@pa...>
> > To: <web...@li...>
> > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Web-erp-developers] Translations
> >
> >
> > > Luca is still away basking in the med sunshine but he preferred the db
> > > approach. Luca was keen to get stuck in on his return and we should
wait
> > for
> > > his input. However, I would like us to go ahead with the gettext
> approach
> > as
> > > Hani who has done this already advises. There is quite a swag of
> resources
> > > around gettext and it appears almost a defacto standard.
> > >
> > > I think it is well known that my objection is to compromising the
> > > readability of the code. Using gettext appears not to damage this too
> > badly.
> > > It might be an idea if those developers who are keen to be a part of
> this
> > > effort put their hands up and once the approach is clear then divide
and
> > > conquor
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > >
> > >
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