[wp-hackers] no-code-duplication i18n for WordPress

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

Anirudh Sanjeev wrote:
> I feel that having a system to allow plugin authors translating the
> description is better. Can we have a system like this:
> 
> Plugin Name: Name Of The Plugin
> Plugin URI: http://URI_Of_Page_Describing_Plugin_and_Updates
> Description: A brief description of the plugin.
> Version: The plugin's Version Number, e.g.: 1.0
> Author: Name Of The Plugin Author
> Author URI: http://URI_Of_The_Plugin_Author
> Description-de: Description in german
> Description-fr: Description in french
>

Several issues I can see with that idea:

* The plugin author is not probably fluent in all the world's 
languages. PO files allow translators to work separately from the 
plugin author, and not have to modify the plugin file.

* There are now two places for text translations to go (most go in PO 
file, only the description is in the plugin file).

* The plugin header could get pretty long if all world languages were 
included, not to mention different locales for some languages (e.g. 
Traditional and Simplified Chinese).

     --Jennifer

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