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It would be nice to support gettext natively for the systems that can.
On non-usenglish installations, translation will add a 20-30% overhead, if APC is not correctly configured.
We need to:
- use native gettext in CRM/Core/I18n.php, if supported (fallback otherwise)
- show a warning in the UI, if people are using a localized version of CiviCRM without native gettext
- document how to configure native gettext (the operating system must support it) - in the wiki?
- change the hierarchy of l10n files to l10n/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/civicrm.mo
See: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,22740.msg101591.html#msg101591
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Seems like I didn't cross-ref my commit correctly with the issue, so here is a patch for those that would like to test it on their 4.1 installs.
Closing this issue. There has been feedback on the forums of people who benchmarked it and noticed a good improvement on speed and memory.
Documentation is also in the wiki:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/CiviCRM+Localisation#CiviCRMLocalisation-Usingnativegettextsupport
It is still a rather experimental feature, and not enabled by default, but it's a good start, and we can see for later releases how to make it evolve/easier to config.
Committed to version 39390.
To use it, you must define a constant in your civicrm.settings.php:
define('CIVICRM_GETTEXT_NATIVE', 1);
If your operating system does not support your locale, it will fallback to English. We have no method to detect whether the locale is supported or not.