[Xerte-dev] Re: Language fall back

[Pat Lockley]

So then we need some approval process / alert process on new functionality.

I think setting "fallback language" as english is fair enough.

Where do we tell the swfs what language to use?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:
>
> My suggestion would be: NO
> If the functionality is developed in Spanish and English is also supplied
> (but no other languages): YES (because other languages will fallback to
> English.)
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> Citeren Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>:
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>> You might be developing new functionality.
>> You write it in Spanish.
>> The default build is in English.
>> Do we not include the Spanish functions?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Julian Tenney
>> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Wouldn't this only happen if the distributed build had the missing bits
>>> in?
>>>
>>> If people add half language support to their own installations, that's up
>>> to them, n'est pas?
>>>
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>>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>>> Sent: 12 March 2012 22:33
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>>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Language fall back
>>>
>>> I would shy away from 2
>>>
>>> It leaves open what to do If a php file exists but a Inc file doesn't for
>>> this language but does for another language. Fail? Load?
>>>
>>> On 12 Mar 2012, at 22:13, David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The standard approach is :
>>>>
>>>> 1. Check for existence of $_COOKIE value e.g. for 'lang', if present,
>>>> use that.
>>>> 2. Check to see what languages the browser requests (see e.g.
>>>> Zend_Locale (I think)) and if we have a matching one use that.
>>>> 3. Allow the user to choose via some sort of drop down.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was planning on implementing 1 and 2 sometime soon.
>>>>
>>>> David.
>>>>
>>>> On 12 Mar 2012, at 19:57, Pat Lockley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> issue
>>>>>
>>>>> In the future some one may wish to develop some new functionality in
>>>>> XOT
>>>>>
>>>>> This may be written in Dutch or Spanish
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be plausible to have a site supporting multiple languages
>>>>>
>>>>> The translation for Dutch may be there for Spanish, but might not be
>>>>> there for English.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do we support a "fallback language"?
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