Re: Why use .po files (was: Re: Discussion Question)

POT files are used by the gettext module, which is pretty much the
primary globalization system in PHP.

On Oct 26, 4:31 pm, Ryan Schmidt <google-2...@ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 09:02, zuha wrote:
>
> > Okay just have a question I've been curious about for awhile.  What is the benefit of .pot files instead of say using Google Translate?    I'm also curious as to whether removing the 1000's of __() functions would have any performance upgrade in that case.
>
> Are you talking abouthttp://translate.google.com/? Where users can go to view automatic translations of web sites? Surely that's not what you're advocating. Developers should provide web sites with translations that have been vetted by someone who understands the language, and should not rely on users to seek out automatic translation services.
>
> Or do you mean some other Google service for web site developers to translate their sites? If so I'm not familiar with it. But one answer for why one would use .po files instead of such a service is that .po files were around long before web services (and long before the web itself). If you think using a web service would work better for you, then by all means use it.

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