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diff --git a/lib/htmlpurifier/docs/proposal-language.txt b/lib/htmlpurifier/docs/proposal-language.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..149701cd3 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/htmlpurifier/docs/proposal-language.txt @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +We are going to model our I18N/L10N off of MediaWiki's system. Their's is +obviously quite complicated, so we're going to simplify it a bit for our needs. + +== Caching == + +MediaWiki has lots of caching mechanisms built in, which make the code somewhat +more difficult to understand. Before doing any loading, MediaWiki will check +the following places to see if we can be lazy: + +1. $mLocalisationCache[$code] - just a variable where it may have been stashed +2. serialized/$code.ser - compiled serialized language file +3. Memcached version of file (with expiration checking) + +Expiration checking consists of by ensuring all dependencies have filemtime +that match the ones bundled with the cached copy. Similar checking could be +implemented for serialized versions, as it seems that they are not updated +until manually recompiled. + +== Behavior == + +Things that are localizable: + +- Weekdays (and abbrev) +- Months (and abbrev) +- Bookstores +- Skin names +- Date preferences / Custom date format +- Default date format +- Default user option overrides +-+ Language names +- Timezones +-+ Character encoding conversion via iconv +- UpperLowerCase first (needs casemaps for some) +- UpperLowerCase +- Uppercase words +- Uppercase word breaks +- Case folding +- Strip punctuation for MySQL search +- Get first character +-+ Alternate encoding +-+ Recoding for edit (and then recode input) +-+ RTL +-+ Direction mark character depending on RTL +-? Arrow depending on RTL +- Languages where italics cannot be used +-+ Number formatting (commafy, transform digits, transform separators) +- Truncate (multibyte) +- Grammar conversions for inflected languages +- Plural transformations +- Formatting expiry times +- Segmenting for diffs (Chinese) +- Convert to variants of language +- Language specific user preference options +- Link trails [[foo]]bar +-+ Language code (RFC 3066) + +Neat functionality: + +- I18N sprintfDate +- Roman numeral formatting + +Items marked with a + likely need to be addressed by HTML Purifier + + vim: et sw=4 sts=4 |