[mapserver-users] Re: mapserver and i18n

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi Thomas,

I think it would be good it someone summarized this thread in an 
enhancement request ticket. Ideally someone that knows what is required 
by INSPIRE, which is not me :) Posting the ticket number to the list is 
also a good idea so others with interest can add themselves to the CC list.

I'm not aware of any efforts to actually do this at the moment, but from 
the discussions it seems like something that would be generally useful.

-Steve W

On 10/12/2010 9:15 AM, tellett wrote:
>
>> I think that what needs to be passed to mapserver is something like
>> lang=en_US and that is then used to select the appropriate alias. And if
>> that does not exist then there are appropriate rules for how to handle
>> it or error out.
>>
>> -Steve
>
>> this is much better:
>
>> "ows_title" "highways" # default layer title
>> "ows_title_fr" "..." # france layer title
>
>> "ows_group_title" "Infrastructure" # default group name
>> "ows_group_title_fr" "..." # france group name
>
>> "gml_ID_alias" "Number" # default alias
>> "gml_NAME_alias_fr" '... # france alias
>
>> NAME 'good'  # default class name
>> NAME_fr 'good'  # france class name (oups, not looking good)
>
>> Thanks a lot and regards,
>> -Daniel
>
>
> I'd agree entirely with Steve and Daniel on this. We're currently looking at
> creating INSPIRE compliant WMS and so we desperately need to solve this
> problem, like everyone else we're really loath to create duplicate mapfiles.
> Don't suppose this has been suggested in an RFC or set as a ticket yet?Guess
> I could just not be lazy and check myself...:)
>
> Tom