[Xerte-dev] Re: Language fall back

[Tom Reijnders]

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.)



Citeren Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>:

> 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?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat  
>> Lockley
>> Sent: 12 March 2012 22:33
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> 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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