Re: [PEPr] Comment on Internationalisation::Maketext

Hello Jean-Michel, > From: Jean-Michel POURE <jm@poure.com> > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] [PEPr] Comment on Internationalisation::Maketext > > Please, this is not a personnal attack on Juergen. I'm not taking this personally, how could I, because Maketext was not my own idea. Jean-Michel, the idea for Maketext comes from research by Sean M. Burke, who has a MA in linguistics from Northwestern University and Jordan Lachler, a PhD student in the Dpt. of Linguistics at University of New Mexico. Sean M. Burke, who has developed the Perl Module Locale::Maketext, is also a major contributor to CPAN, the Perl equivalent of PEAR. http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/ You mention Chinese and I can assure you, Locale::Maketext IS being used for Chinese. Autrijus Tang, a Chinese I18N geek and also major contributor to CPAN, has written modules which are extending Locale::Maketext. Would he do so, if the module wasn't useful in Chinese? http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/ http://glob.autrijus.org > Even if Hans Juergen is valuable, it can only lead to PEAR > users (especially English native speakers) believe that it > is POSSIBLE to code sentences. Which is not. But that is YOUR personal opinion! > Hence, people will loose their work and may need to recode > their strings from scratch. Sorry, but this is plain FUD. You make predictions about something you haven't even tried. > If your application/site require several languages, the > best is to write a different sentence for each case. Like > explained in the article. Are you talking about Sean M. Burkes Article? Where does it say this? Certainly not in the conclusion. > My EUR 0.02 :) If only one could unify languages as easily as currencies! :-) Hans