Question

I’m putting together a list of function names for a function which would return back a localized string for a website I am working on. I’m still undecided what would be a good name for this function. My two goals are two try and make it as short as possible as I will have to replace tons of hardcoded text embedded in HTML but make it intuitive enough that new developers would understand what it is meaning. In many ways I think this is a personal preference but I am curious to hear what all of you folks would do.

Here’s some example function calls of what I am looking at right now…

// This would return "Hello" for english, "Bonjour" for french
LangString("Hello")

// Same as above just different function name
LSTR("Hello")

I am working in HTML and embedded classic ASP/VBscript

Answer 1

I’d just use tr for translate. It’s short, doesn’t muddle the context too much, and it has a pretty universal meaning.

Qt and Unix use tr, at any rate, so it’s not really a proprietary naming scheme.