According to Sean Reifschneider:
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:27:40AM +0200, Gerhard Gonter wrote:
Are there any plans to for non-english user interfaces which can be selected individually by the user or at least for a whole list?
What about an approach that would use an interface like this:
setlang('German') print translang['ERROR: You have selected an invalid option ("%s")'] print translang[' Please try again...']
I imagine a shelve called "German" which has as the key the hash of the string, and as the value the translated string. [...]
Any comments?
A sophisticated approach like your example with some sort of automatic translation is certainly an insteresting goal. Another much simpler and only partial solution to start with would be a translate a couple of templates. This may be sufficient to keep the bulk of non-english speaking users happy enough to accept mailman.
A modification of Utils.maketext in a way to select a list-specific templates directory could do the trick, e.g. an additional parameter which defaults to En_US or C.
The template directory would contain language specific subdirectories ~mailman/templates/ En_US/ Fr_FR/ De_DE/
The templates directory could also contain the shelves for the more sophisticated translation part.
Well... Just a thought ...
+gg
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