Hi All,
I raised the below CR and I wanted to open up discussion on this issue.
Actually I brought it up a few years ago but I don't have a record of
where/when; now.
I know that this have a major impact on implementers but I think the
current way we handle translations in ADL is a monster that is only
going to get worse.
Thoughts?
--Tim
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From: Tim Cook (JIRA) <jira-ad...@openehr.org>
To: timothywayne.cook at gmail.com
Subject: [JIRA] Created: (SPEC-302) Translations embedded in the ADL are
not efficient and should instead use 'gettext' catalogs.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:47:02 +0100 (BST)
Translations embedded in the ADL are not efficient and should instead use
'gettext' catalogs.
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Key: SPEC-302
URL: http://www.openehr.org/issues/browse/SPEC-302
Project: Specification
Issue Type: Change Request
Reporter: Tim Cook
Archetypes like openEHR-EHR-OBSERVATION.blood_pressure.v1 with four
translations are huge and tedious to process the languages.
openEHR should adopt the standard use internationalization (i18n) and
localization (i10n) tools that use gettext catalogs. This is the industry
standard approach to performing translations. Tools like POEdit are open source
and cross platform http://www.poedit.net/
More info about gettext is here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html though it is about the
GNU set of tools there are others.
What will openEHR-EHR-OBSERVATION.blood_pressure.v1 look like with 10, 15, 100
translations?
--
Timothy Cook, MSc
Health Informatics Research & Development Services
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