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Any plans to support localization of UI elements, so that I (for example) could set up a completely German speaking forum?
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\n\nSo you could replace that lookup table with the \"de\" one to get German.
\n\n* we didn't get all the strings into the lookup table for launch, but the vast, vast majority of them are and the ones that are not, we will fix as we go!
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\n\nI wonder where there is a tool that can compare two yml structures and point out which nodes are missing? That would help keep track of new strings.
\n\nRe keeping track of changed strings, @codinghorror I found this very interesting: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4232922/why-do-people-use-plain-english-as-translation-placeholders if plain English placeholders were used, any change in strings would lead to a new node in the yml file, making keeping the translation up to date easier. Maybe worth thinking about in the future.
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\n\nAlso, I am a big fan of ICU message format, but it is not the \"Rails way (tm)\".
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\n\nAs said on dev, the best tool I can see in terms of giving translators a proper interface and quality control would be something like GlotPress. It's based on the PO messages format (is that somehow related to ICU?) but looks pretty great.
\n\n\n\nI'm not familiar with the term in this context, you mean keeping the English version in the code base (instead of a generic code like message_error_nametooshort ?)
ICU Message format is basically Gettext on steroids, Gettext has been around for so many years and actually works pretty well, being super prevalent in Linux.
\n\nTrouble is you need a fuzzy matcher for translators if you are going to store stuff like mf.compile( 'This is a message.' ) in source, one letter change and all your translators need to validate it.
Yeah, that's why I've always been a friend of message_error_nametooshort placeholders, until I asked the SO question linked above. The accepted answer makes a good argument against those placeholders: you want translations to break even on small changes in the English original because the translations will probably need to reflect the change, too. Maybe that's not the case right now as new stuff is being checked in pretty much every couple of hours, but in the long run, it'll be overwhelmingly true.
Hmm...You could theoretically also build something into the development process that would monitor changes to the English locale file and make a translator-friendly list of changes between versions.
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\n\n(Sweet forum software, by the way. I was just testing out Egyptian hieroglyphics on the test server, because they're well off the Basic Multilingual Plane, and tend to flush Unicode bugs. Everything worked flawlessly.)
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\n\nI think it would be awesome, very doable technically.
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