Re: Arabizing Arabeyes website (Todo)

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- 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

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