Re: I18N (New Class: Locale)

On Monday 11 February 2002 11:24, Naoki Shima wrote: > >Wolfram Kriesing is putting together a set of I18N classes. We > > don't need both, I guess you two should talk together. :-) > > > > - Stig > > I don't think my classes(phpLocale project) comflict with Wolfram > Kriesing's proposal so that > my classes could be merged into I18N(?) branch of PEAR if nobody > has different idea. OK, so here is my suggestion how this I18N-stuff might work in general: Once you set up an I18N-object you have to define the current language and/or Locale you are currently working with and a default and/or fallback language. And if we use the translate mechanism i suggested in my Language class we would also need a source-language, from which we want to translate. This way a call to i.e. "I18N_Message::translate" would know that it has to translate into the current language. And you dont have to pass an additional parameter which tells the language to translate into, but it is optional too. And i.e. a method "I18N_Paper::getSizes" would know for which locale it has to return the currently available paper sizes. or should this be something the application handles, and it should always pass the parameter locale/language? code example: // tell that we are working in german and with the locale stuff for // germany :-) $paper = new I18N_Paper( 'de_DE' ); // gets all paper sizes for Germany $paper->getSizes(); $messages = new I18N_Messages( 'de_DE' ); // translate a string from the source language into german. // (source language is english by default, // IF we decide to use it at all) $messages->translate( 'Hi guys, i am happy to be here' ); $time = new I18N_Time( 'de_DE' ); // convert date properly $time->convert( $aMillisecondTimeStamp ); how does that look? This might not be too important, but is there some common agreement in PEAR if method names are singular or plural? Since I18N_Messages is plural, but I18N_Paper is singular. I experienced sticking to singular makes things easier, i dont have to look up how the class name was, either "Messages" or "Message". -- Wolfram ... translating template system ... http://wolfram.kriesing.de/SimpleTemplate