Hi,
ext Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Kimmo Hämäläinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Wrong. It would depend on the context and language.
>
> Yes, it COULD, fer-crying-out-loudly. :) We have the data now to
> figure out whether it actually DOES for the set of our supported
> languages.
>
>> And what happens when you add a new, more 'context-sensitive'
>> language?
>
> We change the code. Simple. Providing unneeded context is bad in my
> opinion, and the way we do it with the logical ids is excessivly ugly.
>
> Also, how do you know whether I use the correct context in my code?
> Maybe I am using "ai_bd_ok" for all my "OK" buttons?
>
>
> In general, we should try to reduce the need for context and
> complicated translations. The classical example might:
>
> Searched in %d files and %d directories.
>
> You will never be able to translate this nicely for all languages
> because of the wierd way they handle plurals, etc, and because of the
> combinatorial explosion.
Translator can change the order of the arguments with "$".
See "man fprintf" and the Single Unix Specification.
(In Python its preferable to use keywords like "%(day)s %(month)s"
instead I think)
- Eero
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