[Radiant] Translating Radiant

Frederic Brunel fbrunel at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 12:25:19 CDT 2006


On 7/19/06, Oliver Baltzer <oliver at nitro.glycer.in> wrote:
> On 18-Jul-2006 05:27 -0700, Scott Walter was heard to say:
> > I really like the plugin gloc for globalization, for me its the easiest to use.  You basically have properties files that you define all your localized strings.   Its located at http://rubyforge.org/projects/gloc/
>
> If at all possible, I think something that uses gettext as its
> backend should be used, since there are a whole lot of tools out there that
> make editing PO files very easy and also there are many translators who are
> already familiar with gettext.
>
> I believe Globalize actually uses gettext, but I am uncertain.

Actually very few plugins are based on gettext, check the comparison
sheet below:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/InternationalizationComparison

GLoc doesn't rely on a database to make translation and I find it easy
to setup. But translating the content of the database is not yet
supported (whereas Globalize does it).

-- 
Frederic Brunel



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