Re: HTML::Template and Locale::Maketext

Translation issues aside, one of the best parts of storing translations in a database is that you can quite easily build a web interface to the database table.  You write a script which greps your source-code/templates so that it inserts the new strings, and deletes any unused ones.

This works really well for web pages as you simply set the encoding to UTF8, provide a combobox of selectable languages / regions, provide a textarea for the string input and a submit button.  As a programmer I never need to speak to the translators as they simply use the web interface.

The only real issue that the programmer has to do is to set a few extra template variables:

   TMPL_VAR document_charset
   TMPL_VAR document_direction
   TMPL_VAR document_language
   TMPL_VAR document_direction_default
   TMPL_VAR document_direction_inverse

The first three should be used in your document headers and occasionaly in table headers.  The other two are used for formatting within tables, so that your text/image alignment comes out correct for the language.

hope this helps
Mathew


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