[Mapbender-dev] [Fwd: [OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers
Internationalization]
Christoph Baudson
christoph.baudson at wheregroup.com
Sun Jul 15 13:50:38 EDT 2007
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Subject: [OpenLayers-Dev] OpenLayers Internationalization
From: "Christopher Schmidt" <crschmidt at metacarta.com>
Date: Fri, July 13, 2007 7:06 am
To: dev at openlayers.org
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Couple questions for internationalization:
Current strings included in the OpenLayers Library which are likely
candidates for i18n (incomplete):
Ajax.js:37: alert("Unhandled request return " + request.statusText);
Control/OverviewMap.js:537: alert('The overview map only
works when it is in the same projection as the main map');
Format/GeoRSS.js:124: alert("Couldn't parse " +
geometry.CLASS_NAME);
Format/WFS.js:126: if (!feature.fid) { alert("Can't update a
feature for which there is no FID."); }
Format/WFS.js:161: alert("Can't update a feature for which
there is no FID.");
Format.js:42: alert("Read not implemented.");
Format.js:56: alert("Write not implemented.");
Layer/GML.js:129: alert("Error in loading GML file "+this.url);
Layer/Vector.js:172: alert(message);
var message = "Your browser does not support vector rendering. " +
"Currently supported renderers are:\n";
message += this.renderers.join("\n");
Layer/WFS.js:376:
this.commitReport('WFS Transaction: SUCCESS', response);
this.commitReport('WFS Transaction: FAILED', response);
* How much support do we need for interpolation in text? I think that
the answer for this at the moment is "none" -- that is, all
translated text will be literal, exact matches for the time being,
with no interpolation of variables into the middle of strings. This
may change in the future. Depending on how it changes, more complex
support for pluralization may also be needed. For the time being, I'd
like to ignore all of this and just pretend that we want simple
string translations unless someone tells me otherwise.
* In general, translation libraries use a short function name to
indicate "translate this string." (I think a common use in C is the
"_" function, via the gettext library or what have you.) In
OpenLayers, we try not to squash other people's namespaces. I'd like
to use OpenLayers._ for translation, as opposed to
OpenLayers.Strings._ or something similar.
* I think the simplest thing to do is to have a single Javascript file
with the Strings in it (lib/OpenLayers/Strings.js), and a default
language. Then, to change the language, all you need to do is
something like:
OpenLayers.Strings.language = "fr";
before you start working with the UI. Does this seem sane? the
file might look something like this:
OpenLayers.Strings = {
'en': {
// Message reported via alert when WFS transaction succeeds
'olLayerWFSSuccessMessage': 'WFS Transaction: SUCCESS'
},
'es': {
'olLayerWFSSuccessMessage': 'WFS Transaction: e`xito!'
},
'1337': {
'olLayerWFSSuccessMessage': '5|_|CC35'
}
OpenLayers.Strings.language = 'en';
Is there anything that anyone can think of that would make this
totally infeasible?
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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