Re: Re: other languages

Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: >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. What about Windows, Linux, MacOSX, etc. ? These OS support localized error strings. It's a good practice IMO. The point is whether to let it up to the user or have this handled by PEAR and more specifically PEAR_Error/PEAR_Exception, or maybe just provide the interface to plug a self-made translator based on error codes if the feature is needed. Bertrand Mansion Mamasam