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

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

Thinking a little more - we dont really want variable names translated
anyway - the scripts will always be in English and using the variables
would be tough if they were actually translated to something else.

gettext works on a bunch on languages as well as PHP but it is really
only working purely with strings.

Phil

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