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Atomic Translations – Part 2 – Translated Text as a Data Type in PostgreSQL

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

[Part 1: Database i18n as a Data Type Problem | Prototype Postgres Library] In my last post (longer ago than I intended), I discussed the approaches I’ve come across to adding i18n to a database schema, and outlined my theory that the whole problem could be recast as one of data types. In order to [...]

Atomic Translations – Part 1 – Database i18n as a Data Type Problem

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

[Part 2: Translated Text as a Data Type in PostgreSQL | Prototype Postgres Library] The most obvious task when making any application multi-lingual is to make the UI translatable; there are absolutely tons of options for this, libraries in all sorts of languages, recipes, discussions, etc. But for many applications there’s another task, just as [...]