[mapserver-users] Re: mapserver and i18n

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 10/6/2010 11:07 AM, teeschke wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks a lot, but I don't mean the support of caracter encoding.
>
> I want to publish the same map in different languages.
> I mean the technology to publish the same content in multiple languages.
> E.g. an american user would see the layers named "highways" and "railways"
> but a user from france will get the layers named "autoroute" and "chemins de
> fer" - with using the same shapefile.
>
> regards, Daniel

Daniel,

I think this has more to do with the client software than directly with 
mapserver on the server side. The layer names are not really exposed to 
the user except possible in part of the UI that might have a control to 
turn on/off a layer. At that point the client side should be doing the 
translation of the displayed names to the mapserver layer names.

Along this line of thinking, I think it would be interesting if 
mapserver could detect the client language preferences and that could be 
made available for selecting which attribute columns are used for 
labeling. I have done this with a control in the client to select the 
language then made changes in my requests to the server to request a 
different mapfile based on language.

Regards,
   -Steve W