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From: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: A briefing is needed...
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:41:25 +0100
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Dave Page wrote:
> That's not exactly the case. It can be easily redesigned, however we
> have other priorities right now which are more difficult - eg.
> Internationalisation.

The internationalization system I see in CVS right now doesn't look very 
well thought out.  Separating the text from the context where it will 
appear will not make the site very maintainable.  Plus, it doesn't look 
like this system is going to have a lot of external tool support for 
editing, verifying, and updating translations.  The same mistakes have 
been made before, see catgets, Java properties, various similar 
key=>string attempts.  Check out WML and gettext for better approaches.  
Not only do they fulfill the criterion of not separating text from 
context, they also have tool support and are actually used in 
situations similar to ours.

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