[Toolserver-l] I10N and toolserver subdomains

[Ilmari Karonen]

On 12/29/2010 03:11 PM, Mike Połtyn wrote:
>
> I've had an epiphany today about internationalization of the Toolserver tools.
>
> You see, right now we have to create our own ways to provide more languages:
> * http://toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php?scriptlang=gsw
> * http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php?uselang=ckb
> etc. etc.
>
> What I propose is language subdomains, much like Wikimedia projects
> have. All language subdomains would refer to the same directories, so
> we could just do Apache's ServerAlias equivalent on ZWS.
>
> This would make possible for developers to read the language user
> wants directly from the subdomain, instead of relying on seperate tool
> implementation of translations.
>
> And by that, I mean just using different parameters to describe user's
> desired language, not how to achieve this. So, for example, above
> links would look like this:
> * http://gsw.toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php
> * http://ckb.toolserver.org/~soxred93/pcount/index.php

Hmm, that could indeed work.  Of course, 5 minutes after it's enabled, 
someone will file a bug report saying that it doesn't work, because when 
they go to gsw.toolserver.org, all (99.9%) of the content is still in 
English. :)  But I guess that's not really a serious obstacle, just a 
minor but inevitable side effect.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen