Re: I18N for PEAR (before Language class for PEAR?)

On Monday 11 February 2002 12:17, Naoki Shima wrote: > From: Wolfram Kriesing [mailto:lists@kriesing.de] > >There are a lot of defines (the iso codes) for this I18N stuff, > > how can we best do that? > >1.we can define all the iso-codes in a file, like: array( > >'en'=>'english', ... ) and > >array('en_US'=>'american english', > > ...), etc. > >This will make the php-code quite big. And not all variables are > >needed all the time. This might be a performance issue, or not? > >(Where are the PHP-core experts :-) ) > > I have already done that in Locale_Language which contains contain > ISO 639-1 code to Language name mapping. > It is defined in array. > Also, Locale_Country contains ISO-3166 code to Country name > mapping. see: http://phplocale.sourceforge.net/ i am looking at your classes and i have seen that, i just want to evaluate which is the best method to do it, since we do not only have those iso-codes to provide. but also the locales like "en_US" and may be the 3-letter code (which is a lot more) and may be some others, or am i wrong? -- Wolfram ... translating template system ... http://wolfram.kriesing.de/SimpleTemplate