17 Nov
2009
17 Nov
'09
2:12 a.m.
On Monday 16 Nov 2009 1:23:55 pm Philip Tellis wrote:
I understand the constraints you are working under - but my own mantra is that
a coder who does not i18n'ise his code while he is writing it is unfit to write
code. (this has been true for the last 5-6 years at least). Yet if I took a
poll on this list - or on the Chennai LUG list where they claim to be more
passionate about language, I would warrant that very few coders would put
their hands up (if any at all). That said I appreciate the huge amount of
headache adding i18n to an older app - I have done it a couple of times, and
would hate to do it again.
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regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Senior Project Officer
NRC-FOSS
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
actually most
Indian developers add i18n later, very few i18n their code
by default. When 'bolting' i18n into their code, errors creep in which
are only noticed by the translator. Once the coders get into the habit,
then these
FWIW, i18n was added into Everybuddy about 3 years after it was first
developed and Ayttm inherited that code. The code then moved from
developer to developer, not all of whom understand everything (or
anything) about i18n. For the most part the project has always had
1-1.5 developers working on it unlike some larger projects that have
6-8 full time developers and tens of part time contributors. Given
this, a manual review has always been impossible. One just takes what
one gets and hopes someone sends in a patch or explains the problems
clearly.