Sebastian Riedel asks: > Am 01.06.2005 um 22:14 schrieb Daniel Schmeck: > >> I use the template toolkit for generating static html pages. At the >> moment are >> all templates with german content. >> [...] > Am i the only one here using Locale::Maketext? > > I like Catalyst::Plugin::I18N which is based on > Locale::Maketext::Simple.
I think this is simply a matter of scale. IIRC, the (Mason-based) Request Tracker <http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/> is using Locale::Maketext::Lexicon, whereas bugzilla is using Template Toolkit, but doing its internationalisation without any additional perl modules. It makes a difference whether you want to program a framework or application intended for general use (like Catalyst or RT) or to produce one bilingual static website (with ttree, presumably). Fine modules as they are, for a static website Locale::Maketext::* look like pretty much overengineering. Even if there were a simple TT plugin around it (or is there?). I'd accept Locale::Maketext if I already had a lexicon or if there is a chance that the lexicon I create for my site is going to be used elsewhere - but neither of those happened so far. Therefore I always have deliberately decided for simple TT templates with hashes and against Locale::Maketext::* for websites. One syntax less to remember (the lexicon), and one set of modules less to care for. But these have been sites of 1500 pages or less - bigger sites may need more powerful tools. That said, Autrijus's presentation "Web Localisation in Perl" gives an example where a simple TT template with hashes would fail: <http://www.autrijus.org/webl10n/slide011.html> # The German lexicon, in extended PO File format msgid "You are my %ord(%1) guest in %*(%2,day)." msgstr "Innerhalb %*(%2,Tages,Tagen), sie sind mein %ord(%1) Gast." I've never felt the need to tell things like this in my websites nor the desire to create lexicons like that. -- Cheers, haj _______________________________________________ templates mailing list templates@template-toolkit.org http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
