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

At 00.40 22/07/03 +0200, you wrote:

>>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)

I think that, for example, you could use POD2::LT:: namespace to 
distinguish different locales

>>    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? :)

Did you propose this as perldoc patch? Could be an interesting feature... :-)

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         - Enrico