On May 17, 2012, at 2:55 AM, Zdravko Subakov wrote:

> Beside just translating some of the menus to local languages Id like to dinamicly change UI for example: labels, menus etc for users prefered language. The idea is to store each textual component with a veriosns for each language in a database and then retrieve it as needed. Is there something I should be aware of ia there the proper way of doing it?

We are using the standard GNU gettext strategy for localization: wrap localized strings in the _() function, and then use the gettext tools to extract those strings and translate them dynamically. The translations are managed at https://translations.launchpad.net/dabo/ - if you have a Launchpad account and speak a language other than English, you can help the project by translating as much of the framework as you can into your language.

That said, this only helps for the framework strings; if you have your own strings for your app that need localization, there (currently) is no way to handle this. I could see extending the dLocalize class to work with both the framework translations as well as the app-specific translations, but I would imagine that this would not be a simple thing to do. Can you add a ticket for this so that it doesn't get forgotten? The ticketing system for dabo is at http://trac.dabodev.com

-- Ed Leafe

_______________________________________________

Post Messages to: Dabo-users@leafe.com

Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users

Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users

This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/6AD6CAD0-2A27-4735-A099-1D229E785FF6@leafe.com