Re: Localized PODs

I like this idea. Of course, this means module authors will also have
to create and maintain multiple PODs :-) Should h2xs be patched to
create stub files for alternate languages/encodings.. something like:

h2xs -<your normal switches> -l zh_TW,Big5 Foo::Bar

Which would create Foo/Bar.zh_TW.pod and Foo/Bar.Big5.pod?

This would at least encourage people to do this. I would, though, get
nervous that if I was seeing the Big5 POD, and it wasn't kept up to
date, I would be missing info contained in  the 'default' POD. 

Cheers,
Kevin


On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:58:31PM +0800, Autrijus Tang ([email protected]) said something similar to:
> Hi folks.  What do you think about a localized 'perldoc', e.g.:
> 
> 	env LC_MESSAGES=zh_TW.Big5 perldoc DBI
> 
> looks for DBI.zh_TW.pod and display its result, re-encoded in Big5
> encoding from the default utf8?
> 
> This way we can distribute documents in several language alongside
> each module; the recoding part I've already sent as a patch to Sean
> Burke's Pod::Perldoc.
> 
> Thoughts,
> /Autrijus/



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