RE: [PHP] best practice wrt multi-lingual websites, gettext() etc.
| From: | Boyd, Todd M. | Date: | Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:52:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] best practice wrt multi-lingual websites, gettext() etc. | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bastien Koert [mailto:phpster@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 12:23 PM
> To: Per Jessen
> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] best practice wrt multi-lingual websites, gettext()
> etc.
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> At work, we don't use gettext() since :
> a) its an classic ASP shop ( :-( ), therefore no Linux and no PHP
> b) the db current doesn't support multi-byte charsets
If database size (on disk, not spatially) isn't a concern, you might
consider encoding the multi-byte strings, storing them encoded, and then
decoding them when that language is requested. There will be overhead
involved in the codec operations, obviously, but you could help to curb
that with client- or server-side caching.
Just a thought. It might not be feasible for your situation at all...
// Todd