On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:37:20PM +0100, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> >>> 'the role is %(role)s and the level is %(level)d' % {'role': 'test',
> 'level': 3}
> 'the role is test and the level is 3'
>
> If translators decide the order has to be changed, this will result in
> something like this:
>
> >>> 'the level is %(level)d and the role is %(role)s' % {'role': 'test',
> 'level': 3}
> 'the level is 3 and the role is test'
>
> This approach works in all cases, even in the case that the two format
> specifiers are the same (e.g. both are numbers).
>
> There is one downside though: translators MUST NOT translate the keywords
Isn't this checked by the msgfmt command? If not, it should be, IMHO.
Bug in gettext?
> ("level" and "role" in my case), since those are the keys used to lookup the
> value in the mapping passed to the % operator. But then, translators can
> just as well mess up format specifiers that are used in the traditional,
> positional way, e.g. by translating '%.3f' to %.0f', which will result in
> the fraction being removed upon display. So... a short translator notice
> should be fine to avoid this problem.
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