Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 03:27:59PM -0300, David Pratt wrote: I am also going to look at Karsten's material shortly to see how his system works I am still away from the net but here is how to find the description in our Wiki: Go to user support, user guide, scroll down do developers guide, go

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-07 Thread David Pratt
Many thanks Karsten. I got a system working with arrays yesterday but will still be examining your code. I guess the next challenge is to see how well the multidimensional array can be searched. I guess I could make indexes on an expression to retrieve language for a specific key since each

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-04 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:00:50PM -0300, David Pratt wrote: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnumed/gnumed/gnumed/server/sql/gmI18N.sql?rev=1.20content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup Many thanks Karsten for some insight into how you are handling this. David, if you go to the Developers

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-04 Thread David Pratt
Many thanks, Karsten. I am going to look at your example closely. Regards David On Sunday, July 3, 2005, at 09:50 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 05:00:50PM -0300, David Pratt wrote: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnumed/gnumed/gnumed/server/

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-04 Thread Greg Stark
I wonder if you could make an SQL type that used text[] as its storage format but had an output function that displayed the correct text for the current locale. Where current locale could be something you set by calling a function at the beginning of the transaction. Do pg_dump and all the

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-04 Thread David Pratt
Hi Greg. Not sure about this one since I have never made my own type. Do you mean like an ip to country type of situation to guess locale? If so, I am using a ip to country table to lookup ip from request and get the country so language can be passed automatically to display proper language

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-04 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Hi there, sorry if just misunderstanding but we have contrib/hstore available from http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ which could be used for storing as many languages as you need. It's sort of perl hash. Oleg On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, David Pratt wrote: Hi Greg. Not sure about

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-04 Thread Greg Stark
Oleg Bartunov oleg@sai.msu.su writes: Hi there, sorry if just misunderstanding but we have contrib/hstore available from http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ which could be used for storing as many languages as you need. It's sort of perl hash. Huh. That's pretty neat. I don't

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-02 Thread Greg Stark
David Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was suggested that I look at an array. I think that was me. I tried not to say there's only one way to do it. Only that I chose to go this way and I think it has worked a lot better for me. Having the text right there in the column saves a *lot* of

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-02 Thread Karsten Hilbert
SELECT language_text[1][1] AS language_code, language[1][2] AS text FROM language_text; They way we do that in GNUmed: select lookup_val, _(lookup_val) from lookup_table where ...; If you want to know how see here:

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-02 Thread David Pratt
Many thanks Karsten for some insight into how you are handling this. Regards, David On Saturday, July 2, 2005, at 06:08 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: SELECT language_text[1][1] AS language_code, language[1][2] AS text FROM language_text; They way we do that in GNUmed: select lookup_val,

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-07-02 Thread David Pratt
Hi Greg. Well I'm kind of half way but I think what I am doing could work out. I have an iso_languages table, a languages table for languages used and a multi_language table for storing values of my text fields. I choose my language from iso_languages. Any table that needs a

[GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-06-30 Thread Steve - DND
I've recently been trying to implement some i18n functionality as simply as possible into my application. I have a lot of lookup values and such in the DB that need to be translated, and I would rather not do it in the calling client. A friend and I put our heads together, and came up which

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent i18n?

2005-06-30 Thread David Pratt
Hi Steve. I have been a bit puzzling over a similar issue - not i18 for interface but for text data and trying to sort out a solution so I will be interested to hear additional advice as well. When I wrote to the list a couple of weeks back (look for my posting around the 17th) I was looking