localizeable theme graphics ???

[helpy (Guido Erlinger)]

Hello,

Themes, which are propperly prepared with gettext functions _t(),
_n(), _e() and _ne() can be translated by creating following
directories in the theme directory:

==> <theme-name>/locale/<language code>/LC_MESSAGES

And than create the language catalog (mo file) and save it as
theme-name.mo int the new LC_MESSAGES directory

The charcoal theme has graphics with english texts!
Wouldn't it a nice way for localizable graphics to put the localized
graphis in a new direcotry:

==> <theme-name>/locale/<language code>/images

And if there is an image in the locale directory for the appropriate
language, this one can be used instead of the image in
<theme-name>/images.

This kind of localization could be used for each file-type. A theme
function like _f( 'images/graphic_01.png' ) could return
'locale/<language code>/images/graphic_01.png' ....

What do you think about this idea?
If you deliver a theme (charcoal) with habari, which uses graphics
with english texts ... these should also be localizeable, like the
texts in the theme itself!

cu, helpy

[msi]

Charcoal is ready to "translate" the images. But not the way, you
think of. Charcoal will use your locale variable (for example: de-de)
and it will look for a CSS file named after that variable (de-de.css),
located in the same directory as Charcoal. This CSS file will be
loaded in "header.php" and can contain your images (with translated
text) and other sizes (if necessary).

[helpy (Guido Erlinger)]

Hi msi,

cool! thank you for this information! This works great :-)
I did this on www.helpy.de ...

created de.css and an new direcotry images.de with the translated
images.

thank you!!!
guido