Re: other languages

On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:45:31 +0200 lsmith@php.net (Lukas Smith) wrote: > Hi, > > Quite sensibly PEAR uses english as its base language. However > here (http://www.pear-forum.de/viewtopic.php?p=2464#2464) is a > post on a german forum that raises an interesting and important > issue: PEAR provides no proper way for developer to display > error, status and other messages in a translated form. > > I raised this on IRC and one solution that was proposed was > gettext. However gettext is painful in alot of ways. Most > importantly messages will likely get minor modifications and > using gettext this would become a BC break. > > The best solution IMHO is using error, status etc codes. > Especially for error codes this means once again extending from > PEAR_Error (otherwise it would be impossible to determine what > error code map to use for a given error object). Error codes sound good (textual or numeric). I do not see a point to allow localized errors. Except 4d (which translates its langage too), I do not know any other with such custom errors. --Pierre