POT files are used by the gettext module, which is pretty much the primary globalization system in PHP.
On Oct 26, 4:31 pm, Ryan Schmidt <google-2...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > On Oct 26, 2011, at 09:02, zuha wrote: > > > Okay just have a question I've been curious about for awhile. What is the > > benefit of .pot files instead of say using Google Translate? I'm also > > curious as to whether removing the 1000's of __() functions would have any > > performance upgrade in that case. > > Are you talking abouthttp://translate.google.com/? Where users can go to view > automatic translations of web sites? Surely that's not what you're > advocating. Developers should provide web sites with translations that have > been vetted by someone who understands the language, and should not rely on > users to seek out automatic translation services. > > Or do you mean some other Google service for web site developers to translate > their sites? If so I'm not familiar with it. But one answer for why one would > use .po files instead of such a service is that .po files were around long > before web services (and long before the web itself). If you think using a > web service would work better for you, then by all means use it. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
