Re: [GENERAL] internationalizing text

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Fork
You can use a where clause when selecting from a veiew, so the following should work for you: CREATE VIEW my_view AS SELECT o.*, n.descr, n.lang FROM nation n, org o WHERE o.nation = n.code SELECT * FROM my_view WHERE n.lang = someKnownQuantity Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP -

Re: [GENERAL] internationalizing text

2001-03-23 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:29:17AM -, Michael Ansley wrote: > I think that the standard way to do this is to use a resource identifier, > and then have a separate table with all strings. That's the way that most > internationalisation is done in programs, and it's probably not bad for > datab

RE: [GENERAL] internationalizing text

2001-03-23 Thread Michael Ansley
Title: RE: [GENERAL] internationalizing text I think that the standard way to do this is to use a resource identifier, and then have a separate table with all strings.  That's the way that most internationalisation is done in programs, and it's probably not bad for databases either.

[GENERAL] internationalizing text

2001-03-22 Thread will trillich
so who's got a clever implementation of cross-linguistic texts? create table something ( id serial, yadayada int4, whatever date, mumble float8, en varchar(50), -- english es varchar(50), -- e