sNews

Cross-Cultural Communication skills is a relatively new term, referring to the ability to recognize cultural differences and similarities when dealing with someone from another culture and ability to recognize features of own behavior which are affected by culture.

2006.4.24

Filed under: The i18n Reviews — Moshu @ 22:54 (CDT)

Recently I discovered a very good little script sNews. It can be used as a light-weight blog or for a non-blog website - it’s quite versatile.

General

Script name: sNews

Script URI: http://www.solucija.com/

Download: http://www.solucija.com/home/snews/

Documentation: http://www.solucija.com/home/docs/

Licence: Creative Commons

Price: free

Description: sNews is a completly free PHP and MySQL driven tool for publishing and maintaining news articles on a website. Integrating sNews into your existing design is simple, but you could also use sNews on it’s own, as a simple Content Management System. Consisting of only one file, sNews is extremely lightweight, very easy to install, and easy to use via a simple web interface.

i18n

Since the whole script is one single file, the internationalization/localization is pretty straightforward. All the translatable strings are grouped at the beginning of the file and you can go in two ways:
a) by creating a separate language file (recommended)
b) by translating the strings directly in the script file

Known issues: The original file’s encoding is iso-8859-1 and there are no plans at this moment to change it to utf-8 which would support all languages.

i18n/l10n documentation: Presently only in the forum where you can also find a repository of existing translations.

Method: translating the strings for the language file

Tools: plain text editor

Difficulty level: easy

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