On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 12:58:24AM -0300, Nicolás_Lichtmaier wrote:
> Hi. I still consider that translating in the server is the right thing
> to do:
>
> * There are libraries which run both server and client-side. Some of
> these are already marked-up with _().
> * Messages have parameters (%s). What would we do with them? There
> would need to be an infrstructure just to handle this issue.
> * It should be expected that the client is not just subversion.
> Nowadays you can use WebDAV and HTTP clients (which should get
> translated messages). Some interoperativity with DeltaV
> implementations can be expected in the future too.. right?
> * It should be expected that several compatible subversion clients
> will be in use. It won't be posible for a client to know in
> advance every message a server could throw.
>
> In any case, the current gettext implementation is not well suited for
> server use. Changing the locale affects the whole process, so you can't
> do that in an Apache module. And I don't know if it would even be
> efficient. In addition to this, the license makes difficult to have
> gettext modified to suit these needs.
>
> So: I've wrote a little, sample, gettext implementation. It uses APR
> (I'm a newbie with it =) ). It depends on having mmap support in APR. It
> does not currently use the hashtable, it just uses binary search to find
> the right message. I don't think this is much slower than the hash
> option. The point of this implementation is that it keeps a hashtable of
> several message-files and let the user specify which locale wants in
> each gettext call. I'm attaching what I've wrote so far. As you can see
> is very easy and simple code.
I thought we decided to punt on doing server side i18n right now? So
why are you even thinking about it? The consensus was from what I
recall (without going back and looking) was we would do client generated
message localization first and then worry about server side possibly at
2.0.0 because the changes necessary to do the server side stuff weren't
possible until 2.0.0 anyway.
--
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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