[thelist] best scheme for translating UI strings?

Fred Jones fredthejonester at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 14:19:25 CDT 2009


> Other options are: using variables to hold each string (I'm not fond of
> this one); and doing something like in Drupal, where I simply pass the
> English translation of a string to a t() function and it searches the
> database for the string and returns the appropriate translation. I think
> this would be more work, though, cause I'd have to build an interface to
> manage the translation of strings.

Makes sense to me the t() idea. This is not hard work to build--should
be quite simple I would think.

My 2 cents



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