[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Arabizing Arabeyes website (Todo)
- To: "Administrative (website/upkeep) Discussions" <admin at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Arabizing Arabeyes website (Todo)
- From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:44 -0800 (PST)
--- Youcef Rabah Rahal <yrrahal42 at hotmail dot com> wrote:
> >What I will do insh'a Allah is to strip all the english strings from
> >the php files and put them in "en.php" and then translate the english
> >strings and but them in "ar.php"
>
> Not sure what you mean by that. But the best way to do this is to implement
> the 'gettext package'. It is done from the code side. All the disaplyed
> messages in the various PHP code files should be wrapped with a function.
> Then you create PO files (like for GNOME, KDE...) and you translate them.
> Having a multilingual website is then staright-forward and easy to maintain
> (in case of a change in the texts etc).
I agree with Youcef, this sounds like the best way to go about it
(and this comes from the PHP code's father no less :-)
> PS: Nadim, I'm really glad that you are OK (as well as your family).
> I really am.
Thank you Youcef, I'm looking forward to December (when you thesis reaches
a 1.0 revision) for us all to work again as a single cohesive unit :-)
Salam and Ramadan Kareem to all.
- Nadim
__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears
http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/