Localizing b2evolution

Posted by on 20 Mai 2003 in Translations

Okay, with the first beta-testers testing b2evolution I am beggining to feel an urgent need to localize the software. I was running most of my pages with french text (like "laisser un commentaire") and the testers want english (that is at least english!) :-/

Right now I just switched back everything to english but I do need to localize this. Actually, I needed this anyway for my own site. I will eventually do it as planned and links like "leave a comment" will be displayed in the current post's language.

On blogs like this one, were posts are mixed in multiple languages (yeah I know it's a little strange, but this is Europe... :>>) that means I must have several languages handy at all times.

So I was thinking about putting the strings into arrays... but this may not be as straightforward as I could have thought, as I need to take care of several things:

  • Make it efficient
  • Make it readable in the source code. Replacing 'leave a comment' with $uistring[49][$lang] won't do it!
  • Make it easy for contributors to translate the whole product

Gotta think about it some more... ;)

5 commentaires

Commentaire de: Matt

Matt

Let me know when you post some code. Some of the things you’re working on sound very much in line with what we’re doing with WordPress. Perhaps some of the efforts could be combined. Cheers.

21.05.03 @ 12:01

Commentaire de:

captsolo

Localisation is a good thing, but in my opinion not the most important. (Although it’s good to try reading some French posts for example)

What I would like to see most of all is to have multi-language posts in a sense that I can have one post in multiple translation and the site would display on it’s front page only one language version, depending on viewers preference.

Other versions could be accessed by language buttons and/or on single-post view.

See my post about blog ideas / wishes for more info.

P.S. Also at the bottom of that post are notes about bugs/problems when using “b2 bookmarklet” to make a post.

15.08.03 @ 10:45