[wp-polyglots] plugin translation

[Ryan Boren]

Stefano wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:59:43 +0200, Ralf Schmitt
> <ralf.schmitt at schlund.de> wrote:
> 
>> I don't realy understand what you mean! I've looked deeper into some
>> plugins and some parts of wordpress. I found localized plugins which don't use
>> gettext. They have an own copy for each language what is not nice but a work 
>> around for the 'description' problem.
> 
> This is not THE solution, using gettext for them and plugins is a
> standard method, but I admint the "header" of theme and plugin (this
> particulary) is a problem, but I think we could find a solution like
> having this header with field shown in the plugin page in WP iwith
> specifica language tag and WP will show according the language
> settings
> 
>> I've planned to write a minimal wordpress patch which greps, depending on the
>> actual local, Description_fr_FR  or Description_de_DE and so on...
>> If there are any news from Matt about this issue please drop a mail to the 
>> list.
> 
> This path will be very welcome I think, I hope Matt or Ryan will read
> this in next few days and answerr or I will post the question to
> hacker mailing list

We can do it like the XDG desktop spec:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s04.html

Ryan