[Foundation-l] Translation of the language names

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There are many more languages then provided by either the CLDR or the
ICU-project.. Also we have a need not only but also for the name of the
language. The codes as used by the ICU are a mix of the codes used by the
different ISO-639 standards.. The Babel extension is aware of both ...
Thanks,
    GerardM

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Anon Sricharoenchai <anon.hui at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 5/15/08, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> >  The Babel extension that is being developed in Betawiki has all these
> >  languages translated into the native language. Also the name for the
> >  language is initially retrieved from the CLDR standard. We will welcome
> your
>
> Another solution is to use libicu (http://www.icu-project.org/) via
> php-intl extension (http://docs.php.net/manual/en/intro.intl.php).
> ICU have already imported those translations from CLDR.
> See
> http://demo.icu-project.org/icu-bin/locexp?_=fr&SHOWLanguages=1#Languages
> , for an example of french translations.
>
> With php-intl, use,
> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplaylanguage.php: to get
> localized display of language name
> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplayscript.php: localized
> display of script name
> http://docs.php.net/manual/en/locale.getdisplayregion.php: localized
> display of region name
>
> MediaWiki then could have magic variables for these translations.
>
> >  help localising the Babel extension... We truly want it to become
> available
> >  as a WMF extension :)
> >
> >  I am still puzzled what you want to use it for.. There are many projects
> >  that have already done exactly this and many are available under a free
> >  license as well..
> >  Thanks,
> >       GerardM
>
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