[mapserver-users] Re: mapserver and i18n

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 10/6/2010 12:54 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> 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
>

Hi Bart,

Thanks for this feedback. I will look into that.

While I have implemented multilingual driving directions, but I'm far 
from being very knowledgeable with regards to most of the i18n issues.

So do you have any recommendations or ideas for how mapserver should 
deal with this? Would something like creating an additional mapping 
table for terms solve this problem? Maybe something like the following 
in a mapfile:

TRANSLATIONS
   TERM "Highway"
     en_US.UTF-8 "Highway"
     en_UK.UTF-8 "Autoroute"
     ...
   END
   TERM ...
   END
END

or something along these lines, with the idea the mapserver use this to 
deal with user requests appropriately.

-Steve W