Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-08-01 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Russell Thank you for the clarification. Just a couple of questions below ... On 1/08/2011 11:09pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: Close, but not quite. * USE_I18N turns on the availability of translations at all. If USE_I18N is false, all translation-related activities are no-ops. * Assuming

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-08-01 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > On 1/08/2011 8:09am, Lucy Brennan wrote: >> >> I read Wikipedia and Django docs. Now, after all this debate, I see that I >> _did_ understand the definitions when I first read it. >> >> Given those definitions however, the meaning of USE_I18N

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-31 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 1/08/2011 8:09am, Lucy Brennan wrote: I read Wikipedia and Django docs. Now, after all this debate, I see that I _did_ understand the definitions when I first read it. Given those definitions however, the meaning of USE_I18N and USE_L10N are not obvious. Far, far, far from obvious. There _a

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-31 Thread Lucy Brennan
I read Wikipedia and Django docs. Now, after all this debate, I see that I _did_ understand the definitions when I first read it. Given those definitions however, the meaning of USE_I18N and USE_L10N are not obvious. Far, far, far from obvious. There _absolutely_ has to be some additional expl

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 18:21 +1000, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/internationalization/ > - Internationalization > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/localization/ - > Localization > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/d

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-29 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 29/07/2011 5:38pm, Masklinn wrote: On 2011-07-29, at 05:56 , kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:37 -0700, Lucy Brennan wrote: Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In Django: USE_I18N: translation USE_L10N: localized formatting Right? wrong Th

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-29 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Masklinn wrote: > On 2011-07-29, at 06:58 , Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> To the rest of this thread: I want to head something off at the pass >> right now -- consider it a core-team decision that we're not going to >> rename these settings. I18n and L10n are well

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:38 +0200, Masklinn wrote: > > wrong > That's not what the Django documentation says, at least in my reading > of it. i18n - preparing an app to be customised in *any* locale l10n - actually customising it for a *particular locale One can do i18n *without* doing *any* tra

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-29 Thread Masklinn
On 2011-07-29, at 06:58 , Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > Lucy: Although there are a lot of people that use L10N and I18N > interchangeably, they are very distinct terms; any source you find > that uses them interchangeably is categorically wrong. However, the > two are very closely related, because l

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-29 Thread Masklinn
On 2011-07-29, at 05:56 , kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:37 -0700, Lucy Brennan wrote: >> Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In >> Django: >> >> USE_I18N: translation >> USE_L10N: localized formatting >> >> Right? > > wrong That's not what

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 12:58 +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > >> USE_I18N: translation > >> USE_L10N: localized formatting > >> > >> Right? > > > > wrong > > Ok - seriously, Kenneth - if you're not going to take the time to > provide a full answer (with sentences, capitalization and all the > tr

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:56 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:37 -0700, Lucy Brennan wrote: >> Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In >> Django: >> >> USE_I18N: translation >> USE_L10N: localized formatting >> >> Right? > > wrong Ok - serious

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 29/07/2011 1:56pm, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:37 -0700, Lucy Brennan wrote: Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In Django: USE_I18N: translation USE_L10N: localized formatting Right? wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationaliza

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 09:37 -0700, Lucy Brennan wrote: > Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In > Django: > > USE_I18N: translation > USE_L10N: localized formatting > > Right? wrong -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "D

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread Lucy Brennan
Did anybody read the links I supplied. Or maybe you were busy plussing on Google+ :) So there seems to be two pairs of definitions for I18N / L10N: a) I18N / L10N ~ (building software so ready to be locale-language-customized / making a specific localized version ) b) I18N / L10N ~ (translat

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread Masklinn
On 2011-07-28, at 18:37 , Lucy Brennan wrote: > Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In > Django: > > USE_I18N: translation > USE_L10N: localized formatting > > Right? yes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread Lucy Brennan
Before I comment, I would like to actually know if I got it right. In Django: USE_I18N: translation USE_L10N: localized formatting Right? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
On 28/07/2011 2:28, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 16:53, kenneth gonsalves > wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:09 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: >>> I strongly disagree, i18n and l10n have explicit and well known >>> technical meanings, dating from the late 80s. It is right and prop

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-27 Thread Lachlan Musicman
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 16:53, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:09 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: >> I strongly disagree, i18n and l10n have explicit and well known >> technical meanings, dating from the late 80s. It is right and proper >> to use those names in django, as they are used

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 15:09 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > I strongly disagree, i18n and l10n have explicit and well known > technical meanings, dating from the late 80s. It is right and proper > to use those names in django, as they are used in every other project > under the sun. +1 -- You receive

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Andre Terra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Lucy Brennan > wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> For both the USE_L10N and USE_I18N their effect is not obvious from >> their naming. I suggest, that the description of these parameters in >> https://docs.djangoproject.

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-26 Thread Andre Terra
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Lucy Brennan wrote: > > (...) > > For both the USE_L10N and USE_I18N their effect is not obvious from > their naming. I suggest, that the description of these parameters in > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/?from=olddocs are > made more precise.

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-26 Thread Lucy Brennan
Sorry for the late response to your reply. For some reason, I did not get your response to my email. I only saw your answer because I went to the online archive. Here is a follow up for the googlers. I have read the Django documentation, e.g.: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/,

Re: USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-18 Thread Shawn Milochik
If you look up those terms in the Django docs instead of Wikipedia I think that will erase your confusion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from th

USE_I18N vs. USE_L10N

2011-07-18 Thread Lucy Brennan
I believe I understand the general definitions of internationalization and localization, e.g. as defined on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization. Internationalization is somewhat like building/designing a piece of software for being used with different locales. And lo