<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">This looks to be a very interesting project. The solution is very close to my own hacked version of i18n. I will be starting a new job where this module will come in handy as we will be using Drupal in a half dozen languages. Although 5.0 is not on the table yet I am going to join your group, keep an eye on things and help out where possible to stimulate some activity in talking about i18n solutions.<br><div> </div><div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Carl Mc Dade<br>____________________________<br>Web Developer<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><br> </font></div></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Roberto
Gerola <roberto.gerola@speedtech.it><br>To: development@drupal.org<br>Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 1:26:20 PM<br>Subject: [development] Multilingual support<br><br><div>Hi.<br><br>I'm the author of Localizer, a module alternative to Internationalization,<br>that adds multilingual support to Drupal.<br><br>For whom interested in details of my module here<br>there are some links :<br><br>Project page : <a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org/project/localizer">http://drupal.org/project/localizer</a><br>Project issues : <a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/localizer">http://drupal.org/project/issues/localizer</a><br>Manual, written by a friend, Edward : <a target="_blank" href="http://drupal.org/node/103419">http://drupal.org/node/103419</a><br>(and we are working on a multilingual manual too)<br><br>I have joined months ago the groups to add multilingual support<br>to Drupal core : <a target="_blank"
href="http://groups.drupal.org/i18n">http://groups.drupal.org/i18n</a>,<br>where I have posted also my ideas and my proposals.<br><br>I had joined also the mailing list activated by DevelopmentSeed :<br><a target="_blank" href="http://devseeddev.com/pipermail/internationalization_devseeddev.com/">http://devseeddev.com/pipermail/internationalization_devseeddev.com/</a><br><br>But, unfortunately, it seems to me that there is not much activity on these<br>communications channels.<br><br>Reading this post <a target="_blank" href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/2781">http://groups.drupal.org/node/2781</a><br>and taking a look at the Subversion repository here :<br><a target="_blank" href="http://svn3.cvsdude.com/devseed/sandbox">http://svn3.cvsdude.com/devseed/sandbox</a><br>it seems to me that some crucial decisions about multingual<br>support in Drupal are already taken, or am I wrong ?<br><br>For example, if I understand correctly, taxonomy translations<br>will be implemented
duplicating the trees, variables will<br>be duplicated in their own table adding a language attribute.<br><br>Well, I would like to know what is, if exists, the list of features<br>that will be implemented in Drupal 6 to achieve multilingual support,<br>and also the technical solutions that could be adopted.<br>For example, if the variables translation mechanism is definitive,<br>we could think to use it soon, without working now on a different<br>solution that could be abandoned in the next months.<br>For taxonomy we could already port the new patches for the<br>translation, and so on.<br><br>I'm asking this because I would like, if possible, to avoid duplicating<br>work and to be able to prepare a migration path for the users<br>of Localizer when multilingual support will be in the core, probably,<br>in the next release.<br><br>As you can see in the issue lists of Localizer, we are working hard and <br>there are<br>some good requests by the users.<br>I wonder if
something of all this already done work can be used, at<br>least as logic or idea if not as code.<br><br>Many thanks.<br><br>Roberto.<br></div></div><br></div></div><br>
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