Hi Til,
Concerning the translation issue. Whats now about getting rid of gettext and transfer the translation into the database? And use "real" ids instead of the english texts? I can post a db design and a function to get the lang text of an id.
This is only possible if we find a way how to solve the issues listed in the mailthread "Oracle: setting the database character set (SET NAMES not supported)". We can only store the translated strings in a database if we can transform all translation to UTF-8.
Another thing is the performance and translation itself. Nearly all big Open Source projects are using gettext and I see no reason why we should move away from the actual state-of-the-art system. Even KDE with much more strings than OpenCA uses gettext. What happens if the database fails? The GNU stuff of gettext is always available.
Any arguments why we should invest the time in an own system?
Michael -- _______________________________________________________________
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