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

[Phil D. <we...@pa...>]

On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 16:19, Jesse Peterson wrote:

> 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...
> 
> 

That would be good but I just tried it and sadly no go!

echo _("A long string full of $NumberOfCharacters characters"); 

is not extracted by the string extraction facility. xgettext is given
the language=PHP and I guess it is clever enough to know when a string
is really a string and not a string mixed in with a varibale. We are
stuck with the long hand I fear.

Phil