fluid-work IRC Logs-2008-06-11

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[13:39:50 EDT(-0400)] <jensmh> Was anyone else having problems with the wiki and build sites earlier?
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[15:02:27 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> michelled, anastasiac, colinclark: I wrote a little string template function for fluid.util
[15:02:48 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> basically takes a string with markers and replaces all the markers with new strings from an array
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> I'm using it in Uploader to format user feedback strings
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> I'll check it in shortly
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <michelled> ecochran: will that work for i18n?
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> good question
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <michelled> meaning, can we build up meaningful strings in other languages?
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> yes, both the template and the source strings would need to localized
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> the marker is %0 (which is fairly standard
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> and will be fine in UTF-8
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> I think
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> don't know a lot about localization
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> on the web
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> anyone there have any experience
[15:06:02 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> ?
[15:06:13 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> oh, outside of utf-8, % might be mapped to a meaningful character
[15:06:18 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> again, I don't know a lot
[15:06:35 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> this is designed to be really lightweight
[15:06:55 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> /**
[15:06:55 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> * simple string template system
[15:06:55 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> * returns a new string with markers replaced with new strings
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<ecochran> * @param

Unknown macro: {array}

strings simple array of strings (number of array elements should match the number of markers

[15:06:56 EDT(-0400)] <michelled> ecochran, I don't have a lot of localization experience. I was just wondering about translations
[15:06:57 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> */
[15:06:59 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> fluid.utils.stringReplace = function (template, strings) {
[15:07:01 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> var newString = template;
[15:07:03 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> var count = 0;
[15:07:05 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> for(index in strings) {
[15:07:07 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> var searchStr = "%"+index;
[15:07:09 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> newString = newString.replace(searchStr,strings[index]);
[15:07:11 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> }
[15:07:13 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> return newString;
[15:07:15 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> };
[15:07:36 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> no, these are really good questions!
[15:11:20 EDT(-0400)] <michelled> I wonder if there's someone in the sakai community we could ask. What you've written looks useful. I do want us to think a bit about whether it's going to cause us more head ache later when we get translated strings.
[15:12:46 EDT(-0400)] <michelled> I imagine that if the original template has: %0 blah %1 and a translation would be: blah %1 that passing in an empty string for %0 would be just fine.
[15:26:44 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> yes
[15:27:13 EDT(-0400)] <ecochran> michelled: yes, sorry, stepped away for a moment
[15:27:30 EDT(-0400)] <michelled> np
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