[Seaside-dev] Re: Seaside-Gettext sneak peak

[Julian Fitzell]

Ahh.... (been bothering me for a while :) )

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Philippe Marschall <
philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/5/9 Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall at gmail.com>:
> > Hi
> >
> > Up until now if you wanted to have a multilingual Seaside application
> > in Pharo you had to "roll your own" which can be a bit uncool. Hilaire
> > ported the gettext package from the OLPC to Pharo and I wrote a small
> > Seaside layer on top of it.
> >
> > What you need:
> > 1. update to the very latest Seaside 3.0
> > 2. unzip the attached file in your image folder
> > 3. load Gettext from PharoInbox
> > 4. load Seaside-Gettext-Core from [1]
> > 5. load Seaside-Gettext-Examples from [1]
> > 6. go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/gettext
> >
> > Usage:
> > Right now the API is:
> >
> > html translate: 'text to translate'
> > html translate: 'other text to translate' to: aWALocale
> >
> > which renders the translation. This has the problem that is doesn't
> > work for attributes, I'll need to come up with a solution for this,
> > API proposals are welcome.
> >
> > Gettext Workflow:
> > 1. write your application using the API above
> > 2. register your domain. A domain is a way to group strings, you might
> > have Pier and a reporting application running in the same image and
> > want each to use it's own dictionary:
> > TextDomainManager registerCategoryPrefix: 'Seaside-Gettext-Examples'
> > domain: 'gettext'
> > 3. export the template
> > WAGetTextExporter new exportTemplate
> > 4. create the translation files e.g. using poedit [2]
> > 5. put the translation files in
> locale/<locale>/LC_MESSAGES/<domain>.(po|mo)
> > 6. done
> >
> > One of the nice things about gettext is that there are external tools
> > like poedit [2] to manage the translation files which you can give to
> > your translators. No more need to mess around with Excel. There are
> > also tools [3] that display how much of your application is already
> > translated.
> >
> >  [1] http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside29Addons
>
> That's now:
> http://www.squeaksource.com/Seaside30Addons
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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