[Ocaml-i18n] proposal: message catalogue system

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 08:03:09PM +0000, Benjamin Geer wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> >I'm not quite sure if this is a real requirement of not. I know that
> >we did many 1000s of pages using the gettext approach and didn't come
> >across this sort of problem. Perhaps we were thinking of it
> >differently.
> 
> Making several versions of each page for different languages could be OK 
> if you're really presenting things differently for different languages, 
> but if the application does exactly the same thing in every language 
> (I'm thinking of something like Amazon.com), wouldn't it be a pain to 
> have to change 7 pages just to change the layout on 1 page?  Wouldn't 
> you worry that they'd get out of sync?  After all, the purpose of 
> templates is to allow you to keep layout separate from content.

I don't really want to continue this argument much futher ... but
suffice to say that although there were 7 different versions of the
page in the system, the non-English ones were generated automatically
using a Windows-based commercial translation memory system.

Rich.

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