[support] t() with non-english string

[Gordon Heydon]

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Hi,

I don't think so, as there is really no english locale that can be  
translated. In the past I have had to use an english variant like en- 
uk to translate english strings to english. Basically I found that you  
can't create a "en" translation.

I always thought that the default english should be called something  
like C as it is in UNIX.

It has been a while since I did anything with this so it may be  
different.

Gordon.

On 10/02/2009, at 4:34 AM, John Fletcher wrote:

> Does anyone know whether it’s possible to use t() with a non-English  
> base language?
>
> I have a site with a base language of Spanish, plus some other  
> languages, and I need to put a couple of text strings into  
> templates, so I use t(). I would like to write the strings into the  
> templates in Spanish and then use the translation interface to  
> translate them into other languages. Checking the Drupal API for t()  
> seems to indicate strings must be entered into the DB in English and  
> then translated into other languages.
>
> Does anyone know the status on this? Can I use Spanish as input to  
> the t() function?
>
> John Fletcher
> Salt Websites internationalised web development
> http://www.saltwebsites.com/
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