Re: [help-GIFT] i18n-proposal

[David Squire]

Wolfgang Müller wrote:

> Hi all,
> People are kicking me to integrate internationalization (i18n, 18 letters
> between i and n) support into the GIFT. As the main chunk of to-be-localized
> text comes directly from the config file, I suggest the following for the
> time being:
>
> Each attribute whose value is to be displayed to the user e.g.
> "collection-name" will get some sister attributes with a prefix, that contain
> the suitable i18n information.
>
> E.g. in addition to sending
>
> collection-name="sauerkraut eating contest"
>
> we will send
>
> i18-de-collection-name="Sauerkrauteßwettbewerb"
> i18-fr-collection-name="concours des mangeurs de choucroute"
> ...
>
> The client does the filtering.
>
> This will get us into the right direction, at least. The next step is having
> something in the configure-session that tells us what is the preferred
> language and doing the i18n sessionwise on the server side.
>
> What do you guys think?
>

Sounds fine to me..., except perhaps that it might be easier for parsers if the
language indicator were not embedded in an attribute name. Without looking at
the MRML standard, I would suggest something in the spirit of:

<i18-collection-names
    en="sauerkraut eating contest"
    de="Sauerkrauteßwettbewerb"
    fr="concours des mangeurs de choucroute"
/>

Just a thought....

Cheers,

David



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