Re: design question -- localized metadata?

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On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:33:01AM -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> Oops. I should have thought of this before. How should we localize the
> metadata property names?
>
> Off the cuff, I can think of two alternatives:
>
> 1. Localize all keys in the file format. Thus, if your UI is in fr-FR,
> then we'd store "Auteur", "Sujet", "Titre", etc. as keys.

You couldn't really use this data then if you use a different UI language,
then...

> 2. Only store localized versions of custom keys.

Well, store whatever the user entered as the key.

> Store all standard key
> names in the file format, and translate them in the UI.

I would vote for this solution, since it allows Abiword using different
languages all use the same metadata.

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