Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Gettext

[Laurent Destailleur (eldy)]

Le 22/03/2012 10:44, Sasa Ostrouska a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Laurent Destailleur (eldy)
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Yes we think of it but we discard gettext for 2 reasons :
> > * Gettext need to use original translation string into main code. this is
> > not a good way of working. we must have a key inside code but not hard coded
> > value, even it's hard coded value of only one language. Pb with this is that
> > each time, there is a typo error into original language (english), we fix it
> > into source code, but this break all translation for all other language
> > because the key used to translate other files is
> > * Gettext use binary systems and is not compliant with our rule "easy to
> > use, easy to develop". Any user with no technical knowledge must be able to
> > edit the translation file. For this a falt text file is really better.
> > * Gettext need a PHP setup not always activated to be used by PHP. We want o
> > software with no need of any PHP plugin at all, only PHP.
> > 3 points for dolibarr system
> > * The advantage of gettext we miss, is that there is technical tools to
> > detect when a translation is changed to to update language file to add a tag
> > inside it to tell "this sentence may need to be updated".
> > 1 point for gettext.
> >
> > Also, the point 1 and 2 was the most important for us, we choose to not use
> > gettext.
> Ok I understand the reasons. But what is the reason to have the
> strings in variables instead of having them
> in the code hardcoded ?
>
> Probably just to ease the translation. Correct ?
Yes.
And because having to change source code juste when there is a type 
error is someting awful. Also a same string can be at several places. We 
don't want to change at each place when the original translation has to 
be changed, but only twice.
> Rgds
> Saxa
>
> > Le 22/03/2012 03:00, Sasa Ostrouska a écrit :
> > > Hi, have you ever thought of using gettext to translate dolibarr ?
> > > I think it would be much easier to use gettext than the current system.
> > >
> > > Anyway, can anybody tell me the advantages and disandvantages of the 2
> > > systems ?
> > >
> > > Many projects use gettext as far as i know.
> > >
> > > Rgds
> > > Saxa
> > >
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