[wp-hackers] Re: [wp-polyglots] no-code-duplication i18n for WordPress

[Stefano Aglietti]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:56:43 +1000, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

>Just a few quick thoughts:
>wp-includes/strings.php
>  * Contains any hard coded strings in english, Ie. strings for before  
>gettext is loaded.
>wp-load.php:
>  * Checks to see if wp-content/strings.php exists
>    * If so Include that file
>    * Else, include the default wp-includes/strings.php file
>
>wp-load/wp-settings/etc for before gettext loaded:
>  * Reference to $hardcoded['no_db'], or $hardcoded['php_too_old'] rather  
>than hard coded strings.
>
>Result:
>  * Core files not modified, Localised distributions have to include a  
>single extra file in the distro in the users content folder
>  * Static files would notbenefit from that, but, i would hope that  
>instead, translated versions were included, ie. readme.html = english,  
>readme-fr.html = french translation

*1 for this... the only thing i would change is the position of locale
strings.php that should go with other languages file
(wp-includes/languages/ actually)

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