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By Andrei Toutoukine on
Dear Drupal Developers,
I want to develop a specific module, which takes some data from the group of “Data Submitters”, then puts it into a database, and finally shows these data in various formats to the rest of the world.
The question is simple: what is the best way to internationalize these data?
I guess, there will be the other group of “Translators” who are responsible for the translation.
One obvious way to me is to add a field "lang" to the table in DB and provide a href for the Translators, where they can translate all the appropriate fields of each record. Then, at the viewer part of the module, I'll just vary a little the SQL query, using the variable $language, which, I hope, is global and thus may be accessible in the scope of a callback displaying the data.
Site's gonna be bilingual for at least the next 5 years.
I always have a feeling that the one who invents something is occasionally missing some standard engine. That's why I'm asking if there is some better way to internationalize the data?
With the best regards,
Andrei.
