[interchange-i18n] Internationalizing Foundation

[Stefan Hornburg Racke]

I repost this here to start the discussion about this topics
again. We should end up with a decision soon.

Mike Heins <mheins at redhat.com> writes:

> Dear All,
> 
> We will be starting the internationalization effort on Foundation 
> in a few days.
> 
> Obviously, we will need help with translation, but we also have
> quite a few issues to decide.
> 
>     1. Internationalized pages -- should we start fresh and have a
>        pages_i18n directory in addition to the default US-centric
>        pages? How about templates/regions and templates/components?
> 
>     2. Product database structure. There are several options:
> 
>        a. One big table with new columns description_de,
> 	  description_nl, etc. This is my least favorite.
> 
>        b. Separate tables for each language, with empty fields falling
> 	  through to the default products. Basically, this means
> 
> 	    Locale de_DE ProductFiles products_de products Locale
> 	    nl_NL ProductFiles products_nl products
> 
> 	  etc.
> 
>        c. Separate tables *not in ProductFiles* with product
> 	  description information.
> 
>        There may be more that others can think of.
> 
>     3. Pricing -- should we provide easily selectable ability to
>        maintain separate prices for each currency or should we
>        concentrate on PriceDivide.
> 
>     4. Checkout forms -- should we build a different form for each
>        locality, or try and do one big form?
> 
>     5. Text messages -- should we use
> 
> 		[L CODE]The text.[/L]
> 	 or
> 		[L]The text.[/L]
> 	 or
> 		[LC]
> 			The text.
> 			[de_DE] Der text [/de_DE]
> 			[es_ES] El texto [/es_ES]
> 		[/LC]
> 
> 	or a combination?
> 
> Any other issues that are on peoples minds? I have tried very hard to
> give the tools for internationalization in Interchange, but obviously
> I am a monolingual American and often have blind spots. We need to think
> about things which will make the internationalization effort outstanding.
> 
> In particular, if you have experience with the successes and failures of
> other programs and what we might do to emulate or avoid those, it would
> be very helpful.
> 
> Best,
> Mike 
> -- 
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> 
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