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

[Martin Kutschker]

Joerg Schoppet schrieb:
> R. van Twisk wrote:
> 
>> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>>
>>> Joerg Schoppet schrieb:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have used with gettext from C and see no advantage in using it.
>>>
>>> Masi
>>
>>
>> I found it a little easer to work with then using
>> TYPO3's method.
>>
>> I do see some other problems with gettext but solvable.
>> One advantage might be is speed, I can imagine that gettext
>> is faster then the current method used by typo3.
>>
>> Ries
> 
> IMHO, the native gettext is faster because of its direct 
> C-implementation (but I never run any tests).
> 
> The other thing I mentioned gettext is, that it is a wide-spreaded 
> technique to localize applications, so a lot of people know it and 
> perhaps there are a lot of tools and "best practices".

OTOH, TYPO3 has a nice fallback mech (eg pt_BR=>pt=>en), which gettext lacks.

And gettext isn't really easy to use and you need it installed on the 
devlopers machine to create the binary files and so on. I think it's in a 
PHP enviroment ony a hassle.

Masi