Re: Handling Translations

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

On 30 Aug 2001 11:39:35 -0700, jeichorn JoshuaEichorn com wrote:
> I've been playing around with stuff for the new Gnome Website,
> 
> You can take a look at http://gnome.joshuaeichorn.com

I just got a directory listing in that URL.

> I'm using Smarty Templates and the html templates that Joakim created.
> 
> I detect the browser and serve the correct template for the correct browser
> currently, i would like to add support for serving the correct language too.
> 
> I already have language detection down but i need a decision on how
> translations will be handled so i can implement it.
> 
> Currently I has 2 systems for registering the template variables that i've
> been playing with, One loads the variables from an xml file, and the other
> from a php array.  The php_array method would be setup to use gettext
> directiy, the xml method would need an xml file for each supported language
> of cource i could use something like xmli18n tools to create those xml
> files.
I don't really have a clue, but my instinct says go with the XML choice :)

Christian