[wp-polyglots] Default Theme

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

Ryan Boren wrote:
> 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.

Not that I am trying to start the debate again... but
even if the theme is i18ned, maybe it wouldn't be a blindingly stupid 
idea to distribute a translated version, just for the reasons you 
pointed out. I do agree there are people, who both use the default 
theme, won't take the time to cope with gettext and it will be nice to 
lend them a hand. It isn't too hard to prepare a version, in which the 
English strings are replaced with their translations and no __()s and 
_e()s occur in the source.

I am suggesting this, because translating non-gettexted theme and 
especially updating the translation with the current source  and is a 
tiny nightmare. Thus the translator will be happy and maybe the users too :)

Happy hacking of translations,
Nikolay

> 
> Regardless, I think sandbox will use gettext.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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