Ryan Boren wrote:
Michel Klijmij wrote:
Op vr, 29-09-2006 te 17:04 +0300, schreef Nikolay Bachiyski:
The reason (which Matt pointed out) is that there are too many
English-speaking users, who won't like the many __(), and _e()s when
manually changing strings in their blogs!
Shouldn't be a problem, they can use a .po like everybody else...
If other weblog software and CMS are able to provide everything
internationalized, there should be no reason why the WP defaul ttheme
isn't.
Not to start this debate again, but the idea is for the default theme to
be natively translated to each language rather than using gettext. We
see a notable decrease in theme related support issues when gettext is
not present. Non-english speaking users benefit even more because they
don't have to look at English strings when modifying their theme.
sprintf(__("The e-mail was sent successfully to %s's e-mail address."),
$user_login); is not very easy to read, especially if you don't speak
English.
Not that I am trying to start the debate again... but
even if the theme is i18ned, maybe it wouldn't be a blindingly stupid
idea to distribute a translated version, just for the reasons you
pointed out. I do agree there are people, who both use the default
theme, won't take the time to cope with gettext and it will be nice to
lend them a hand. It isn't too hard to prepare a version, in which the
English strings are replaced with their translations and no __()s and
_e()s occur in the source.
I am suggesting this, because translating non-gettexted theme and
especially updating the translation with the current source and is a
tiny nightmare. Thus the translator will be happy and maybe the users too :)
Happy hacking of translations,
Nikolay
Regardless, I think sandbox will use gettext.
Ryan
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