[ckan-dev] i18n in JS stuff

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

On Dec 7, 2010, at 10:36 PM, Richard Pope wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm currently adding a few more pieces of i18n to CKAN - many of the form options and html templates are not actually internationalized on closer inspection. While this doesn't kill us with community catalogues, with Helsinki and the Netherlands its a real showstopper.
>> 
>> Most of these are fixable, but some of them are in JS that doesn't currently go through any i18n filters (e.g. "Add a new resource" js link, "More >" links). Does anyone here have an idea as to how those can be externalized?
> 
> I think the one time I've been involved with something like this
> (using php & smarty) we ended up serving a language.js file as a
> php/smarty file. i.e. using the same system as the html. Would look
> like:
> 
> language.js:
> 
> var WELCOME_MESSAGE = {__($welcome_message)}
> 
> main.js file:
> 
> alert(WELCOME_MESSAGE);
> 

As far as I can tell, thats also pretty much what the jquery folks do. Would anyone consider it terrible abuse to channel this through HomeController? 

Friedrich 

>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Friedrich
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