[wp-polyglots] Default Theme

[Ryan Boren]

Michel Klijmij wrote:
> Op vr, 29-09-2006 te 17:04 +0300, schreef Nikolay Bachiyski:
>> The reason (which Matt pointed out) is that there are too many 
>> English-speaking users, who won't like the many __(), and _e()s when 
>> manually changing strings in their blogs! 
> 
> Shouldn't be a problem, they can use a .po like everybody else...
> 
> If other weblog software and CMS are able to provide everything
> internationalized, there should be no reason why the WP defaul ttheme
> isn't. 

Not to start this debate again, but the idea is for the default theme to 
be natively translated to each language rather than using gettext.  We 
see a notable decrease in theme related support issues when gettext is 
not present.  Non-english speaking users benefit even more because they 
don't have to look at English strings when modifying their theme. 
sprintf(__("The e-mail was sent successfully to %s's e-mail address."), 
$user_login); is not very easy to read, especially if you don't speak 
English.

Regardless, I think sandbox will use gettext.

Ryan