In my view, if you want to translate values in database, you should
arrange for translations to also be in db.
You can just use T but you do not want translation files to increase
when the db grows else everything can become slow.

On Jan 28, 2:41 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi Alexandre, yes I understand that, but it's not really the root of
> my question. The question is whether to create special fields in my
> records for holding the translated text, or use the built-in
> translation mechanism of web2py?
>
> On Jan 28, 9:57 am, Alexandre Andrade <alexandrema...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > everything is passed by T('anything') go to languages/my_ln.py (like
> > en_us.py).
>
> > So you have to manually translate the strings on that file.
>
> > 2010/1/28 weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net>
>
> > > I haven't really worked with translation, yet. But I'm going to be
> > > getting into it in a big way. I have
>
> > > db.define_table('content',Field('title'),Field('body'))
>
> > > I want to enter title and body in English, but then translate to other
> > > languages.
> > > Let's say I do this:
>
> > > rows=db(db.content.id>0).select()
> > > for row in rows:
> > >  trans_title=T(row.title)
> > >  trans_body=T(row.body)
>
> > > Will something like that work?
>
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