Hey Bryan,
Right now we don't have a plan to generalize the i18n support. All of
the plugins handle this by simply exposing options which can be
changed by the user in any way they want. I don't really think the
datepicker model is necessary since it's unlikely that you would load
several locales onto a single page. I would prefer if plugins followed
the dialog model where the options are flat instead of nested under a
locale setting.
On Jan 18, 9:31 pm, Bryan Berry <br...@olenepal.org> wrote:
> Does jQuery UI have an internationalization strategy?
>
> As far as I can tell there isn't a comprehensive i18n strategy for jQuery
> UI. The datepicker widget supports i18n, but having a separate i18n
> implementation for each widget seems to be a bit wasteful and redundant
>
> The first step would be to emulate basic GNU gettext, where you could set
> the locale globally for your jQuery UI widgets
>
> $.ui.locale = "ne"; for Nepal
>
> and have a global jquery.ui.strings.json file where plugins could query for
> matching strings.
>
> In my case, I have a scoreboard widget which shows the user's current score
> in the game and text on buttons "Restart", "Play", "Pause"
>
> rather than just hard coding the text into my widget, I could put a wrapper
> function around text
>
> $("<div>" + $.gettext("Play") + "</div>") // or $._("Play") for short-hand
> method
>
> The gettext method would check against the jquery.ui.json for a translated
> version of that string. If none exists, or the jquery.ui.strings.json
> doesn't exist, the string is returned unaltered.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> For those not familiar with Gnu gettext, it is the i18n mechanism for gnome,
> kde, rails, django, and most popular open-source frameworks
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
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