Internationalization

Internationalization (I18N) refers to the process of designing a software application so that it can be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. For Web applications, this is of particular importance because the potential users may be worldwide.

When developing an application it's assumed that we're relying on PHP internationalization extension. While extension covers a lot of aspects Yii adds a bit more:

It handles message translation.

Locale and Language

Translation

numeric arg {\s*\d+\s*} named arg {\s*(\w|(\w|\d){2,})\s*}

named placeholder can be unicode!!!

argName [^:Pattern_Syntax:][:Pattern_White_Space:]+

message = messageText (argument messageText)* argument = noneArg | simpleArg | complexArg complexArg = choiceArg | pluralArg | selectArg | selectordinalArg noneArg = '{' argNameOrNumber '}' simpleArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' argType [',' argStyle] '}' choiceArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "choice" ',' choiceStyle '}' pluralArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "plural" ',' pluralStyle '}' selectArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "select" ',' selectStyle '}' selectordinalArg = '{' argNameOrNumber ',' "selectordinal" ',' pluralStyle '}' choiceStyle: see ChoiceFormat pluralStyle: see PluralFormat selectStyle: see SelectFormat argNameOrNumber = argName | argNumber argName = [^:Pattern_Syntax:][:Pattern_White_Space:]+ argNumber = '0' | ('1'..'9' ('0'..'9')*) argType = "number" | "date" | "time" | "spellout" | "ordinal" | "duration" argStyle = "short" | "medium" | "long" | "full" | "integer" | "currency" | "percent" | argStyleText */

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Internationalization

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