Make the new layout available for i18n pages

[Chris Howells]

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Hi,

On Sunday 09 March 2003 23:42, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> If its not in PHP by default, then we cannot require it - too many web
> mirrors with unexperienced admins. Sorry.

Ah, good point.

> However, I agree a kind of gettext-like internationalisation would make a
> lot more sense than the current stuff, which is always kind of outdated and
> hard to keep in sync.

Supposedly the latest version of xgettext has support for PHP so that 
shouldn't be a problem (e.g. generating the .po files).

I was thinking of creating i18n() function which basically looked up a string 
in an array (e.g. pretty similar to the way that the url mapper works in 
404.php). The array could be generated from a particular languages .po file 
using a shell script or something. Well, we'll worry about that later.

If you don't understand what I mean, take a look at the way phpSysInfo is 
translated.

This might be slightly slower than the PHP extension since the PHP extension 
turns the .po files into a binary file, but I guess the performance should be 
OK. Hopefully.

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris at chrishowells.co.uk, howells at kde.org
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