I'm developing a script (web cgi) for which I would like to offer multilanguage support. I would like some advise on how I might (better) approach this task. The script will be fairly small and usage (on a non-profit org website) will be fairly light, so efficiency concerns aren't terribly important.

What I'm presently thinking is that I won't hard-code any output in my script, but will populate (from a database or whatever) a hash which would look this:
    $lang{'yes'} = 'sí';
    $lang{'no'} = 'ningún';
    $lang{'The answer is'} = 'La respuesta es';

Then, in my script, I would output something like:
    print "$lang{'The answer is'} $lang{'yes'}.";
and it would print:
    La respuesta es sí.
 assuming I had populated the hash from a Spanish database. (In the English version, the hash values are simply the same as the hash keys.)

Does this seem a good approach? It seems a bit clumsy, but a better idea doesn't come to mind (though I can think of a couple of ideas that I think are much worse). A better suggestion would be most welcome!

In reply to Language Localization (l18n, L10n) - Multilingual Output by davidfilmer

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