Re[2]: [PHP-DB] multi-language site
| From: | Richard Davey | Date: | Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:48:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re[2]: [PHP-DB] multi-language site | ||
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Hello Ignatius,
Thursday, January 15, 2004, 6:41:44 PM, you wrote:
IR> Gettext is NOT an automated translation service. What you do is mark strings
IR> to translate in the original application, then have them translated by a
IR> human. When confronted with a marked string to echo, the application will
IR> look up in the translated file for the corresponding translation.
I use something very similar to this on a few of my sites. I had to
get the whole sentences translated though - you cannot just get
individual words translated and string them together because as you
know, the order of the words varies dramatically from language to
language.
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Best regards,
Richard mailto:rich@launchcode.co.uk