[Padre-dev] Padre::Locale 2.0 lands on trunk

[Adam Kennedy]

I should also note that Locale 2.0 also has about 50% of the work done
for supporting invented languages such as Klingon or Swedish Chef. We
have the ability to make them up and define them.

Mostly I current lack a font that renders Klingon...

Adam K

2009/1/6 Adam Kennedy <adamkennedybackup at gmail.com>:
> Since we've paused for a day to clean things up before 0.24, I've
> taken the opportunity to (probably) break all the language stuff and
> landed the new locale implementation.
>
> This does three interesting things the old one doesn't.
>
> 1. It knows that Brazillian isn't the same as Portugese.
>
> 2. If you are Portugese, it knows to fall back and show you Brazillian anyway.
>
> 3. Even though it's showing you Brazillian, it knows that you what you
> ACTUALLY wanted was Portugese, and so if a better translation option
> or a better fallback shows up later, it will use that instead.
>
> We need to add more of these entries in still (lots more) but
> theoretically, we now SHOULD be able to reach a point where Padre
> could start up in just about any locale in the world and correctly
> guess the right fallback language to use, but without permanently
> locking anyone into it.
>
> Of course, since I don't know any other language except a little bit
> of French, and I can't generate the .mo files anyway, I have no idea
> if I've utterly broken everything.
>
> Please show a little attention and make sure that I haven't broken
> anything you care about... again... today... :)
>
> Adam K
>