[OpenLayers-Dev] Translation / Internationalisation / Localisation

[Mike Adair]

I should have some cycles available to spend on this in the next couple 
of weeks.  Has any work been started on it?

It doesn't matter to me if we choose option 1 or 2 below, but I would 
need some direction from the group (otherwise I'll pick something ;-)

Mike

Erik Uzureau wrote:
> So I'm trying to fidget through some old list emails and I come across
> this 30-mail long thread from over a month ago called "status of
> translation possibilities"
>
> And it's very long and with lots of good ideas and I thought maybe
> it's a good time to retake this discussion.
>
> Basically, having now reread all 30 of those posts, it seems like
> there are two basic plans of attack on the table.
>
> First of all, what we all seem to agree on:
>
>  * Global setting -- not one per map
>  * new file for each new language
>  * new JSON object in each language file which adds a new entry to the
> global hash
>  * interpolation from mapbuilder
>  * need to be able to change languages dynamically
>
>
> ...which leads us to the split.
>
> 1) Event-based -- When the language is changed in OL, an event is
> fired. Those who have strings and wish to update them must listen for
> the event and then take action accordingly.
>
> 2) HTML Attributes -- add 'i8ln' to each DOMElement that needs to be
> changed, and when the language is changed, go through all elements and
> update them.
>
> There is a side issue of providing a facility for changing number
> formats, but I think we should deal with that separately... unless
> someone thinks otherwise. Please speak up.
>
>
> Given how far we've already tread, it's silly to stop now. As we all
> agree, this whole endeavour is practically ridiculous given the amount
> of strings we actually have.
>
> Can we get some feedback on #1 and #2 and hopefully proceed with a gameplan?
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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