[mapserver-users] Re: mapserver and i18n

[Bart van den Eijnden]

I don't agree with you here Steve.

Also look at the INSPIRE language parameter, it's up to the service (View Service, WMS) to translate, not the client. Think of layer titles in WMS GetCapabilities.

The way I've been doing it is to duplicate my datasets behind Mapserver, but that's not an ideal situation.

Best regards,
Bart

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Bart van den Eijnden
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On Oct 6, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:

> 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
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