From: "PEAR Announce" on
The new PEAR package Translation2-2.0.0 (stable) has been released at http://pear.php.net/.

Release notes
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- fixed a few PHP5 NOTICEs
- request #13734: added 'string_page_id_col_length' option to set the size of the
pageID field in the translations table

Package Info
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This class provides an easy way to retrieve all the strings for a multilingual site from a data source (i.e. db).
The following containers are provided, more will follow:
- PEAR::DB
- PEAR::MDB
- PEAR::MDB2
- gettext
- XML
- PEAR::DB_DataObject (experimental)
It is designed to reduce the number of queries to the db, caching the results when possible.
An Admin class is provided to easily manage translations (add/remove a language, add/remove a string).
Currently, the following decorators are provided:
- CacheLiteFunction (for file-based caching)
- CacheMemory (for memory-based caching)
- DefaultText (to replace empty strings with their keys)
- ErrorText (to replace empty strings with a custom error text)
- Iconv (to switch from/to different encodings)
- Lang (resort to fallback languages for empty strings)
- SpecialChars (replace html entities with their hex codes)
- UTF-8 (to convert UTF-8 strings to ISO-8859-1)

Related Links
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Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2
Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Translation2/download/2.0.0
Download: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Translation2-2.0.0.tgz

Authors
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Lorenzo Alberton <l.alberton(a)quipo.it> (lead)
Ian Eure (developer)
Michael Wallner <mike(a)php.net> (developer)