Re: [PEPr] Comment on Internationalisation::Maketext

Le mercredi 7 Avril 2004 00:26, Jan Lehnardt a écrit : > I'd like to take back this staement and apologize to Jean-Michel. No problem, my wording was not clear. > For the case, Maketext is not supposed to be the universal solution to > the translation problem, it is just another approach that takes it quite > a bit further than gettext. Let's give it a try. No problem, but it deserves some warnings like "experimental, use with care, may break strings in non-european languages, ...". People can use the class but should be aware of the consequences. To take a precise example, I doupt that Maketext can ever work for languages like Hungarian, where words are sticked together. In the case of Hungarian, most complicated strings will break. Also, I doupt that non-european languages like Chinese or Japanese will always work with Maketext. Again, the real problem is that average (English-speaking) users may come to believe that we can code human language. English can be coded because it is simple. Most other languages cannot be coded. Cheers, Jean-Michel