[mapserver-users] Re: mapserver and i18n

[Stephen Woodbridge]

On 10/6/2010 7:23 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
> I would do this on the backend. Pass a language variable to your data
> query
>
> DATA "geom from data where lang='%lang%'" LABELITEM "%LANG%HIGHWAY"
>
> And have one mapfile and just have your translations in
> PostGis/Oracle/etc.
>
> Mike
>
>

Yeah, that is what I have done but that requires the client to handle 
the management of the language selection and as Bart is pointing out the 
language selection should be handled on the server.

Here is an example where you can select English, Arabic or French for 
the language of the Instructions.

http://gis.imaptools.com/routing/leaddog/?zoom=10&lat=33.865&lon=35.52263&layers=B0TTTF&start=35.484217%2033.830394&stop=35.627718%2033.92659&method=STS&lang=arb

It obviously needs more work to translate the whole page but my job was 
to just deal with the instructions part of this.

-Steve