On Oct 26, 2011, at 09:02, zuha wrote:

> Okay just have a question I've been curious about for awhile.  What is the 
> benefit of .pot files instead of say using Google Translate?    I'm also 
> curious as to whether removing the 1000's of __() functions would have any 
> performance upgrade in that case. 

Are you talking about http://translate.google.com/ ? Where users can go to view 
automatic translations of web sites? Surely that's not what you're advocating. 
Developers should provide web sites with translations that have been vetted by 
someone who understands the language, and should not rely on users to seek out 
automatic translation services.

Or do you mean some other Google service for web site developers to translate 
their sites? If so I'm not familiar with it. But one answer for why one would 
use .po files instead of such a service is that .po files were around long 
before web services (and long before the web itself). If you think using a web 
service would work better for you, then by all means use it.



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