On 14-Mar-01 Tao wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for the reply. This will not solve my problem. The problem is, for
> some
> languages the sentence structure may be different. For example, the
> sentence
> may need to be,
> $greeting = "$first_name, welcome!"
> as opposed to,
> $greeting = "Welcome, $first_name!"
>
> Or, it can come in a different form, like,
> $greeting = "Good morning, $first_name."
>
> These specificity need to be in the language file, not the scripts.
>
> Tao
>
I use a MySQL table to localis(z)e both words & printf formats:
+-------+------+----------------+-------------------+
| catid | lang | strid | strval |
+-------+------+----------------+-------------------+
| | de | Statistics for | Stand vom %s |
| | de | Statistics | Statistik |
| | sv | Statistics | Statistik |
| | en | Statistics for | Statistics for %s |
| | en | Statistics | Statistics |
| | sv | Statistics for | Statistik för %s |
+-------+------+----------------+-------------------+
+-------+------+---------------+----------------------------------------+
| catid | lang | strid | strval /
+-------+------+---------------+----------------------------------------+
| | en | Topsignupurls | Top %d signup URL's for %s |
| | de | Topsignupurls | Ãbersteigen Sie %d signup URL's für %s |
| | sv | Topsignupurls | Topp %d försäljnings URLs för %s |
+-------+------+---------------+----------------------------------------+
If the phrase structure is likely to be different, you store the printf
specification as well. example:
body_beg(SITENAME.' '.nls('Statistics')); // title & open body
...
$ds=formatdate($dte); // localized date string
...
printf('<H5>' .nls('Statistics for') ."</H5>\n", $ds);
...
printf('<H5>'.nls('Topsignupurls').' </H5>', 30, $ds);
Regards,
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