Re: [Web-erp-developers] file imports for serial items

[Jesse P. <je...@st...>]

>> That would be a great help re internationalization.

One question on this... I saw that you asked that this be done:

>>	echo "<P>A long string full of $NumberOfCharacters characters";
>> would need to be re-written as:
>>	echo '<P>' . _('A long string full of') . ' ' . $NumberOfCharacters . '
>>	' . _('characters');

It makes perfect senses and is easy to follow. I also do not know gettext much at all. The root of what I am wondering is if php evaluates a variable in a "num = $TheNum" style string before gettext translates it or not. If not, it would probably make things a lot easier on potential translators to work with:
   _("A long string full of $NumberOfCharacters characters");
instead of:
   _('A long string full of') . ' ' . $NumberOfCharacters . ' ' . _('characters');

Luckily our code keeper is committed to readable code, so the variable name should generally describe what it is. That would give a translator 2 things - more full context to what they are translating and one less translation to do. I also know languages just enough to know that piecing together english translations in the manner underway does not necessarily produce coherent output. The more a message can be presented with context, the better the translation will be.
Just a thought - not sure how feasible it is...


jesse