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- We are going to model our I18N/L10N off of MediaWiki's system. Their's is
- obviously quite complicated, so we're going to simplify it a bit for our needs.
-
- == Caching ==
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- MediaWiki has lots of caching mechanisms built in, which make the code somewhat
- more difficult to understand. Before doing any loading, MediaWiki will check
- the following places to see if we can be lazy:
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- 1. $mLocalisationCache[$code] - just a variable where it may have been stashed
- 2. serialized/$code.ser - compiled serialized language file
- 3. Memcached version of file (with expiration checking)
-
- Expiration checking consists of by ensuring all dependencies have filemtime
- that match the ones bundled with the cached copy. Similar checking could be
- implemented for serialized versions, as it seems that they are not updated
- until manually recompiled.
-
- == Behavior ==
-
- Things that are localizable:
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- - Weekdays (and abbrev)
- - Months (and abbrev)
- - Bookstores
- - Skin names
- - Date preferences / Custom date format
- - Default date format
- - Default user option overrides
- -+ Language names
- - Timezones
- -+ Character encoding conversion via iconv
- - UpperLowerCase first (needs casemaps for some)
- - UpperLowerCase
- - Uppercase words
- - Uppercase word breaks
- - Case folding
- - Strip punctuation for MySQL search
- - Get first character
- -+ Alternate encoding
- -+ Recoding for edit (and then recode input)
- -+ RTL
- -+ Direction mark character depending on RTL
- -? Arrow depending on RTL
- - Languages where italics cannot be used
- -+ Number formatting (commafy, transform digits, transform separators)
- - Truncate (multibyte)
- - Grammar conversions for inflected languages
- - Plural transformations
- - Formatting expiry times
- - Segmenting for diffs (Chinese)
- - Convert to variants of language
- - Language specific user preference options
- - Link trails [[foo]]bar
- -+ Language code (RFC 3066)
-
- Neat functionality:
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- - I18N sprintfDate
- - Roman numeral formatting
-
- Items marked with a + likely need to be addressed by HTML Purifier
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- vim: et sw=4 sts=4
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