[Rails-core] Localization ideas/proposal

Michael Koziarski
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:47:25 -0000

On 11/8/05, Sascha Ebach <se@digitale-wertschoepfung.de>
wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> couldn''t restrain myself. I was only going to lurk here, but
I''d like to
> comment on that.

Here''s koz being all java-esque again.

Java is widely regarded as a good example of how to do i18n and l10n
''right''.   None of the Java frameworks provide any support for
localisation in the models themselves.   They really provide nothing
beyond supporting ''current locale'' and ''get me the
string for this
key''.

I think that rails 1.x could probably provide support for the
determining the locale and storing  / retrieving keys.   But model
level i18n support is:

* Hard, and
* never ever ever going to satisfy everyone.

--
Cheers

Koz