[Server-devel] Schoolserver home page localization

[Tim Moody]

Hi Chris,

I am working on a home page for the xsce schoolserver, which I would like to 
localize.  The method I have used is to turn on multiviews and have 
index.en.php, index.es.php, etc. which each have any arbitrary text in the 
appropriate language and also make calls, currently to php functions, 
passing localization strings for link phrase and description for each of the 
services on the server in order to generate links.  The page defaults to 
English if no language specific page is found.  Now my questions.

1) Does putting all localization in each html (or php) file seem reasonable 
or should I create a file for each language that contains local strings and 
load it at runtime?  I do want to support free form text, but the services 
are more static.

2) How do we plug into the translation infrastructure so that names and 
descriptions of services, along with welcome and other texts can be 
translated?  This will be an evolutionary process as more services are 
added.

Thanks,

Tim