[Radiant] Internationalization Support

[Keith Bingman]

On Jul 21, 2007, at 5:58 PM, John W. Long wrote:

> I added a new branch to the repository today named 'jargon' and merged
> Kieth Bingman's changes to support Gibberish in from ticket 507
> (http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/ticket/507).

Cool! I have discovered a few things missing in that patch this week  
and have uploaded the corrections.

>
> Jargon needs the following before it can be merged into head:
>
> * A combo box needs to be added to the login screen that will allow  
> you
>    to select your language

Per user languages were something I wanted to add, but I was waiting  
to see were you went with this.


> * Support for auto selecting the language based on the content type
>    requested by the User's browser

I am not quite sure where this would fit in if you can select the  
language at login.

> * A strategy that will allow extensions to offer multi-language  
> support

This one is hard. The way Gibberish works is that it loads the  
language file. The easy way to do it is too paste the changes onto  
the language file, but this will get out of control very quickly.  
Ideally an extension will have it's own Gibberish files. At very  
least, each extension that replaces a view needs to be updated to  
support Gibberish. Do you have any thoughts about this John?

> * More language translation files

I have a German translation done and will submit that as a patch.  
Another thing that will be needed is a good way to submit and review  
translation files. I am not sure you want patches for every language.


> * More tests
>
> Hopefully this will give us a place to coordinate efforts on
> internationalization.

Keith Bingman
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