Re: [RFC] POD2::* perldoc translations namespace

Enrico Sorcinelli wrote:

> We believe that the translations will be useful if these can be easily
> distributed and installed. So it is logical to put it into a Perl 
> package.

Yes, I agree with this.

> Which namespace? We have chosen POD2::<country code> namespace
> and specifically POD2::IT for the italian translations. 

I think this is OK, but there should be a possibility for different 
locales (some countries use more than one language and the same language 
may be used in different countries). There is also a problem of 
different charsets -- we use three locales in Lithuania: 
lt_LT.iso8859-13, lt_LT.iso8859-4 (deprecated) and lt_LT.utf-8 so there 
probably should be some way to distinguish things according to locale 
rather than just language (I know that charsets are non-issue, because 
one can convert them on the fly with Encode module, but I would still 
like to see lt_LT rather than just LT)

> There is also an idea to patch perldoc in order to add a switch (like -L)
> for directly see localized translation:
>
>     perldoc -L it perlfunc

Yes, this is a nice idea. How about also writing a module which would 
automagically download the appropriate translation on request? :)

Petras Kudaras
aka moxliukas
[Lithuanian perldoc translator]