[Toolserver-l] Toolserver Intuition - Tech spec (Toolserver goes I18N!)

Fri Apr 8 04:14:34 UTC 2011

On Friday, 8. April 2011 03:35:42 Purodha Blissenbach wrote:
Krinkle wrote:
> * Direction (Get which direction a language is, LTR or RTL). Handy
> when constructing your <html> element:
> <html dir="{$I18N->getDir()}" lang="{$I18N->getLang()}"

This is not enough. The use of fallback languages requiers the same
functions to exist for each message, because its message text may be coming
from the requested language or any of its fallback languages, or from
English, or from the zxx pseudo language (n linguisitc content) if no
message text exists, even not in English, and a message ey is returned.
That means, it must be possible, to ask for the actual language/locale code
and directionality of each message text returned.

One possible way to do that in one go would be to use an array return code
and list() in PHP, such as:

list( $htmltext, $lang, $dir) = full_msg( ...);
echo('<div lang="'.$lang.'" dir="'.$dir.'">'.$htmltext.'</div>');

If you're not interested in $dir, e.g. because you know your language and
the fallbacks are all LTR, and English, and zxx are, too, you can use

list( $htmltext, $lang) = full_msg( ...);

 etc.

> So $I18N->msg('blabla') (or _('blabla') ) will return the "[blabla]"
> string.

Just to mention: MediaWiki uses "<blabla>" instead of  "[blabla]" in these
cases. I would not mind making it so,too, but also do not really care for
full compability in this point.

Greetings - Purodha
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Greetings - Purodha