From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-04-26T22:19:45-07:00
Subject: Re: Approaches to localization?

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Austin Ziegler (austin@halostatue.ca) wrote:

> The approach that I use is a tag-based system similar to this. It has fla=
ws
> -- but they are flaws shared with the approach mentioned above. The progr=
am
> is configured like so:
>=20
>   Message =3D {
>       # The encoding for the webpages. This should match the encoding
>       # used to create these messages.
>     :encoding                     =3D> "iso-8859-1",
>       # Backend-related messages.
>     :no_webmaster_defined         =3D> "Error: Webmaster is unset.",
>     :backend_unknown              =3D> "Backend %s is unknown.",
>     :cannot_create_project        =3D> "Cannot create project %s: %s",
>     :cannot_destroy_project       =3D> "Cannot destroy project %s: %s",
>     :cannot_destroy_topic         =3D> "Cannot destroy %s::%s: %s",
>   }

This is similar to the approach Mozilla uses inside XUL, but they get
the added benefit of SGML entity replacement from the DTD.

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