>From: "Sam Tregar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Or, is it customary to ask the user and do gettext based > > upon their answer? > > Sorry, I don't. Here's what I'd do if I needed to find out:
I did a lot of searching and reading. I think HTML::Template can be useful when serving multi-lingual pages that are relatively static. For something more dynamic, maybe due to changing error messages. I found that there is a Perl module Locale::Maketext[1] which does what "gettext"[2] while providing some interesting flexibility. For example, let's say I want to return "0 entries found," "1 entry found," or "2 entries found." With gettext I would have to have two lexicon elements to accomodate negative, singular and plural forms. I would not include the number with the text, therefore the number would always be emitted to the left regardless of language. (Other languages may be more natural to say "found 0 entries".) Locale::Maketext lets you specify numbers as parameters to the lexicon. It also has a method to determine negative, singular or plural and use the correct word in the lexicon. Also, being written in Perl, I suppose it could be used with mod-perl and made persistent. (Not sure). Anyway, I hope I didn't stray too far off-topic with this feedback. I think it could be useful to HTML::Template users because the resulting text from a Locale::Maketext call could be substituted into a templates. This way templates can be more easily used for multi-lingual purposes. Additionally, I also learned it's better to ask the visitor which language they prefer (rather than using the http header value). But, the http header value can be used to make a best-guess about the language to use to ask them which language they prefer. Also learned that UTF-8 encoding should be used regardless of the language unless it is found there is not enough support for the language, at which time you should maintain an association between language codes and more specific character sets for the specific language. [1] http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Locale-Maketext-1.06/lib/Locale/Maketext.pod [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html For why gettext is limited, read this amusing story: http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Locale-Maketext-1.06/lib/Locale/Maketext/TPJ13.pod Thanks! Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN developer relations Here's your chance to show off your extensive product knowledge We want to know what you know. Tell us and you have a chance to win $100 http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?HRPT1X3RYQNC5V4MLNSV3E54 _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
