2006-11-18 23:58:41 +00:00
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We are going to model our I18N/L10N off of MediaWiki's system. Their's is
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obviously quite complicated, so we're going to simplify it a bit for our needs.
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== Caching ==
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MediaWiki has lots of caching mechanisms built in, which make the code somewhat
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more difficult to understand. Before doing any loading, MediaWiki will check
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the following places to see if we can be lazy:
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1. $mLocalisationCache[$code] - just a variable where it may have been stashed
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2. serialized/$code.ser - compiled serialized language file
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3. Memcached version of file (with expiration checking)
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Expiration checking consists of by ensuring all dependencies have filemtime
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that match the ones bundled with the cached copy. Similar checking could be
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implemented for serialized versions, as it seems that they are not updated
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until manually recompiled.
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== Behavior ==
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Things that are localizable:
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- Weekdays (and abbrev)
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- Months (and abbrev)
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- Bookstores
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- Skin names
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- Date preferences / Custom date format
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- Default date format
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- Default user option overrides
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-+ Language names
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- Timezones
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-+ Character encoding conversion via iconv
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- UpperLowerCase first (needs casemaps for some)
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- UpperLowerCase
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- Uppercase words
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- Uppercase word breaks
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- Case folding
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- Strip punctuation for MySQL search
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- Get first character
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-+ Alternate encoding
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-+ Recoding for edit (and then recode input)
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-+ RTL
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-+ Direction mark character depending on RTL
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-? Arrow depending on RTL
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- Languages where italics cannot be used
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-+ Number formatting (commafy, transform digits, transform separators)
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- Truncate (multibyte)
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- Grammar conversions for inflected languages
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- Plural transformations
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- Formatting expiry times
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- Segmenting for diffs (Chinese)
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- Convert to variants of language
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- Language specific user preference options
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- Link trails [[foo]]bar
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-+ Language code (RFC 3066)
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Neat functionality:
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- I18N sprintfDate
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- Roman numeral formatting
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Items marked with a + likely need to be addressed by HTML Purifier
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2008-12-06 09:24:59 +00:00
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vim: et sw=4 sts=4
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