On Dec 14, 10:11 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  Note that with Gettext-type I18n (e.g. with fast_gettext),
> this would be much simpler, just _(Date::MONTHNAMES[8]), since Gettext
> uses  the translatable string itself as a key rather than Rails' weird
> symbolic keys.  In general, I highly recommend using Gettext rather than
> Rails' default backend.

I had translatable strings as keys (a long time ago in a completely
different software environment) and it ended up causing quite a
hassle, when one word (or phrase) in the english text  needed to be
mapped to two (or more) different words for some languages

Fred
>
> Best,
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> mar...@marnen.org
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