A good place to get started?

[jsahleen]

Hello everyone,

My name is Joel Sahleen and I am a PHP developer living in the Salt Lake City, UT area. My background is in Chinese and Japanese, both of which I studied at Stanford University as part of my graduate program in Asian Languages. I have been programming in PHP for about 2.5 years now (read career change) and recently received my ZCE certification.

I am currently interviewing with a large web analytics company located in Utah who want me to help localize their products for the East Asian market. Although I have the linguistic background and the necessary programming skills, I have never implemented a localization project before and I was hoping that people on the list could point me toward some good resources to help get me started. I understand that the new intl implementation of ICU is probably the best way to go for doing conversions, but how does this work together with other technologies such as gettext? My potential employers primary concerns are performance and manageability. Which strategies would best satisfy those requirements?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks.

Joel D. Sahleen

[Ed Batutis]

> ... I understand that the new intl implementation of ICU
> is probably the best way to go for doing conversions,

ICU - and intl - does a lot more than conversions. I think you will want to
study ICU. Probably, over time, intl will encapsulate more and more of the
ICU functionality. This will include ICU's idea of how to implement
externalization of resources ('gettext' functionality). You might want to
sell your employer on the benefits of joining the effort to expand intl.

=Ed Batutis



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[jsahleen]

>>Probably, over time, intl will encapsulate more and more of the
>>ICU functionality. This will include ICU's idea of how to implement
>>externalization of resources ('gettext' functionality).

Can anyone give me a rough estimate of when the resources functionality might be implemented? Is there a road map I could look at and show my employer? How fast is ICU when working with external resources? Faster than gettext?

Joel


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