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Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ? |
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Sat, 27 May 2017 10:52:04 +0900 |
> On May 27, 2017, at 4:00, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Why not hide all this ugliness inside 'message'?
I agree. We need to hide the l10n selection/display mechanism inside the string
display functions in a transparent way so that developers *just* have to be
reasonably careful with the strings they build (and we can provide guidance for
the strings, or even correct them if necessary).
My very uninformed idea is that we need an independent function that handles
the preferred language check and the catalog parsing based on a key, and all
the string displaying functions (message etc) would be redefined to call that
function when a non default preferred langage (currently English) is detected.
The only "extra burden" for the developers would be to specify the file default
language somewhere in their code. Currently it would be set to English. But we
can imagine developers working only "locally" and using native strings, and
when l10n versions are provided (for ex from Japanese to English) the display
would also provide the English for English readers, for ex.
Jean-Christophe
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, (continued)
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/05/24
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/05/23
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/23
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/05/23
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Yuri Khan, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?,
Jean-Christophe Helary <=
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Etienne Prud’homme, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Etienne Prud’homme, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Etienne Prud’homme, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/27
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2017/05/26
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/27
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Marcin Borkowski, 2017/05/27
- Re: Before l10n, better practices for (message) ?, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/05/27