[geeklog-devel] Translation possibility

[Tony Bibbs]

Ok, it seems there could be issues with gettext not working on macosx.  I 
will probably stick wtih the concept below.  Please give me some sort of 
head nod if you think the approach below makes sense.

--Tony

 On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, 
Tony Bibbs wrote:

> Ok, bare with me but I think I have a potential way of handling this 
> translation issue.
> 
> 1) We create an xml file for all languages other than english that looks 
> like this:
> <GL2_Translation>
>     <language>de</language>
>     <GL_version></GL_version>
>     <translations>
>         <entry msgid="some english text">translated text</entry>
>         <entry msgid="some other text">other translated text</entry>
>         .
>         .
>         .
>     </translations>
> </GL2_Translation>
> 2) During automated install, the translation type is queried from the 
> user.  
> 2a) if gettext, XML files for all translations are loaded a .po is 
> constructed for each and then we launch msgfmt against all .po's to get 
> the .mo file
> 2b) otherwise we either leave the XML alone and parse that for each 
> request OR we load it into some structure (similar to current array 
> system)
> 
> After all this I start wondering if gettext is so important it justifies 
> the work.  I mean, why not just to with the method in 2b?  My answer, 
> though I can't verify would be speed. I have to believe gettext is 
> faster/more efficient.
> 
> 

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