Re: Gettext real issues

Juanma Barranquero wrote:

>On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:30:37 -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@reloco.com.ar> wrote:
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>>This is not the time for discussing this, it's too early
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>On the contrary, I think is the right moment because it's being discused
>(or at least it was a few hours ago, I'm not up-to-date with this list's
>mail) whether the i18n will be a server- or client-side affair.
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>>but of course
>>there could be a setting to disable sending this Accept-Language.
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>Perhaps I'm being dense. I have no trouble believing that there'll be a
>setting to disable sending Accept-Language *for the svn client*. But I
>don't know how will you make my web browser not to send it (when I'm
>browsing remote repositories).
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This whole conversation is interesting, but beside the point. The
accepted solution in situations like this is that the server sends a
structured message in some common language (usually english), and the
client is responsible for translating it, and if it cannot, it shows the
original. The beauty of gettext is that you don't have to use obscure
message codes.

I will veto any solution that requires the server to translate messages
into a zillion different languages on the grounds that it is abominable. :-)

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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