[TYPO3-dev] Formal / Unformal language

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi Oliver,

yes, this is a good idea, i'll keep that in my mind and will use it this 
way, thx!

vg  Steffen

"Oliver Klee" <typo3-german-02 at oliverklee.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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Hi,

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> this is a very general question.
> In german there are many differences in formal / unformal languages, there
> is e.g. difference in salution
> ("DU"-form and "SIE"-form)
> I don't know which languages have this difference too.
>
> How would you handle this, would you create a new language like "deDu" ?
> The main thing is to have another key for the locallang-files to provide
> both ways.

Have a look at the extension "salutationswitcher" (and its predecessor
"oelib" as well as "seminars" and "sr_feuser_register" that use those
functions). They allow to define a prefix "formal/informal" that will be
appended to the key when looking up localized strings.

Example:

In the extension configuration, we have salutation = formal.

In the locallang file, we have:

label_greeting_formal = "Guten Tag, bitte wählen Sie eine Option."
label_greeting_informal = "Hallo, bitte wähle eine Option."

So the first string will be used when looking up the string with the key
"label_greeting".

Regards

Oliver