Re: How to i18n better?

Andre Polykanine rašė:

Hi everyone, I'm new here and it's my first message. We are making a blog platform (http://oire.org/) which is provided in several languages (currently they are Russian, Ukrainian, and English). Now the i18n process is made as follows: we set a cookie on the site and depending on it we select the language to display the site in. We have three (currently) interface files: rus.lng, ukr.lng, and enu.lng (for English US). the format is the following: define ("MSG379", "Welcome!"); etc. I know that PHP does support somehow exporting the strings into a .pod file. Maybe it would be better to do that? If so, how can I do it? Could you suggest me maybe a better solution than we currently have?

See http://www.php.net/gettext Translations based on constants or variables are not maintainable. Translators will have to track changes in constants/variables. Your translation method does not support plural forms. If you are Russian, you should know that '2 houses' and '10 houses' don't use same noun form in some languages. -- Tomas