[imp] Re : other language for imp : French

[Jon Parise]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:07:16PM +0200, Alain Davreux wrote:

> But why all lang data is not stored in one big XML file ? It would be 
> easier ... then install could use a parser to pick up selected langs and split 
> them in small files usable by IMP ? This is no critisisum, just a theorical 
> question from a newbie ... 
 
The gettext function (_()) is easier to call from PHP code, and
it will always fall back on an English language default.  It's
also nice not to have to build and maintain our own tools to
generate language files (like we used to do) and instead use the
gettext standard.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
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