* Frederic Peters wrote [2005-06-05 21:42:55 +0200]:

> Damjan wrote:
>
> > What's the quixote idiom for writing translatable applications?
> I don't know about Quixote idioms but I'm successfully using gettext
> with PTL.  I'm only using one language per server so there is nothing
> particular to do,

I have done the same in the past as well, an english/french site (wasn't, at
the time, forced down the UTF hole at the time so the recent discussion is of
interest).

I don't recall anything Quixote specific that got in the way of using
gettext, except I seem to recall loading order was important (my recollection
may be faulty) - if you have any troubles try installing gettext before
enable_ptl() and vice versa.

My scheme used both url design and cookies to serve up translated content

i.e.

/doc/1/en
doc/1/fr

would point to different translations of the same document. A preferred
language was set in a cookie for the user by selecting English or Francais off a
splash
page and/or a 'view document in XYZ' other language link available on
documents for which translations existed.

It all worked rather nicely. I've parked that code for a while until I have
the energy to sort out UTF and support all languages, not just those that fit
into the default character set.