> -----Original Message----- > From: Bastien Koert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:23 PM > To: Per Jessen > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PHP] best practice wrt multi-lingual websites, gettext() > etc.
---8<--- > At work, we don't use gettext() since : > a) its an classic ASP shop ( :-( ), therefore no Linux and no PHP > b) the db current doesn't support multi-byte charsets If database size (on disk, not spatially) isn't a concern, you might consider encoding the multi-byte strings, storing them encoded, and then decoding them when that language is requested. There will be overhead involved in the codec operations, obviously, but you could help to curb that with client- or server-side caching. Just a thought. It might not be feasible for your situation at all... // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
