[TYPO3-50-general] Thought about new Translation-Handling

[Joerg Schoppet]

Hi all,

actually I think it is a little bit too early in the development-process 
to talk about translation-handling in TYPO3 5, but as I just read a very 
interesting article in the german php mag [1][2]. I want to share my 
thought about it.

The main thing is to use gettext out of php as one of the wide-spreaded 
localization-tools around.
The biggest problem with gettext is, that php have to be compiled with 
the config --with-gettext and this can be a problem. But here is the 
solution, the php-script "php-gettext" [3]. This php-script emulates 
every gettext-call (e.g. do not use gettext(), but T_gettext()). If the 
gettext extension is available, the script simple pass everything to it, 
if not it emulates the behavior of gettext.

With this you have the power of gettext (wide-spreaded, fast, 
development tools, ...) and a fallback-solution so that a requirement 
for TYPO3 5 would be only "gettext (recommendet)".


Kind Regards

Joerg Schoppet


[1] http://phpmagazin.de
[2] 
http://phpmagazin.de/itr/online_artikel/psecom,id,874,nodeid,62,_language,de.html
[3] http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/php-gettext/