Re: Localization - a proposal

Rob Rothwell wrote:

> Will it still be possible to work in "non-localized" mode this way?
> 
> e: addText: 'Salut'.

Yes, normal text stay same as now. You switch to "localized" text when 
you change it into an association. And you can do that later when you 
need, which is also an advantage of this approach. You can start with 
usual text in the code and later just change it to the association and 
voila, your app is internationalized!

> Or, could you set a default association:
> 
> e defaultLanguage: #fr
> 
> Or better yet
> 
> MyApp defaultLanguage: #fr
> 
> Which would signal elements to use the #fr association for any 
> non-specified language reference?

I wouldn't complicate much further. If you don't have that text 
associations, your text is simply part of your code. In any language you 
wish. But when a need arises to support more than one language, you need 
to upgrade that text to associations. And this upgrade is simple.

Janko

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Janko Mivšek
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Smalltalk Web Application Server
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