Re: [Monotone-devel] resend : i18n

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:06:15AM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> It seems clear that F() is not actually the optimal marker for
> i18nable text; in particular, it's sometimes used to do things like
> build SQL strings... (though these could use boost::format directly, I
> suppose...)

Right, after fighting with gettext for a bit, I changed my mind.

Current policy (the best one I could come up with):
  F() marks strings that should be translated
For strings that should be translated and involve plurals, use:
  FP("%i doorbell", "%i doorbells", count) % count
For strings that need munging, but should not be translated, use:
  boost::format("foo %s baz") % "bar"

You can also translate strings using the traditional _() and N_();
this seems a bit better in some cases (e.g., I marked all the CMD()
usage strings with these.)

-- Nathaniel

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