[JDEV] Internationalization

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Sun Nov 4 12:50:28 CST 2001


It is really time there was more I18n stuff in Jabber. Most important 
is stuff like the "help" text supplied by iq:register, or the text 
used in iq:gateway.


I think we should standarize an attribute that can carry a locale, in 
this wonderfuly normed format, e.g. I could use de_DE. This would be 
used in various places:

* in <presence> to indicate the prefered locale of the client.
* in <iq> to indicate the desired locale for e.g. iq:register / iq:gateway
* possibly even for <message> to denote the language a give message 
was written in, although i fail right now to see much purpose behind 
this (well maybe if we couple it with automatic translation :)


GC would also take advantage of this to locaize messages like "foo is 
now known as bar" or "quux has changed the subject to Test".



Max
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