Re: [Dolibarr-dev] Gettext

[Sasa Ostrouska]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Laurent Destailleur (eldy)
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>
>
> Le 22/03/2012 10:44, Sasa Ostrouska a écrit :
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Laurent Destailleur (eldy)
>> <address@hidden>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes we think of it but we discard gettext for 2 reasons :
>>> * Gettext need to use original translation string into main code. this is
>>> not a good way of working. we must have a key inside code but not hard
>>> coded
>>> value, even it's hard coded value of only one language. Pb with this is
>>> that
>>> each time, there is a typo error into original language (english), we fix
>>> it
>>> into source code, but this break all translation for all other language
>>> because the key used to translate other files is
>>> * Gettext use binary systems and is not compliant with our rule "easy to
>>> use, easy to develop". Any user with no technical knowledge must be able
>>> to
>>> edit the translation file. For this a falt text file is really better.
>>> * Gettext need a PHP setup not always activated to be used by PHP. We
>>> want o
>>> software with no need of any PHP plugin at all, only PHP.
>>> 3 points for dolibarr system
>>> * The advantage of gettext we miss, is that there is technical tools to
>>> detect when a translation is changed to to update language file to add a
>>> tag
>>> inside it to tell "this sentence may need to be updated".
>>> 1 point for gettext.
>>>
>>> Also, the point 1 and 2 was the most important for us, we choose to not
>>> use
>>> gettext.
>>>
>> Ok I understand the reasons. But what is the reason to have the
>> strings in variables instead of having them
>> in the code hardcoded ?
>>
>> Probably just to ease the translation. Correct ?
>
> Yes.
> And because having to change source code juste when there is a type error is
> someting awful. Also a same string can be at several places. We don't want
> to change at each place when the original translation has to be changed, but
> only twice.

Ok thanks.
Saxa

>>
>>
>> Rgds
>> Saxa
>>
>>>
>>> Le 22/03/2012 03:00, Sasa Ostrouska a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> Hi, have you ever thought of using gettext to translate dolibarr ?
>>>> I think it would be much easier to use gettext than the current system.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, can anybody tell me the advantages and disandvantages of the 2
>>>> systems ?
>>>>
>>>> Many projects use gettext as far as i know.
>>>>
>>>> Rgds
>>>> Saxa
>>>>
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