On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 00:45 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > *Never* try to do i18n that way. Don't combine fragments through > concatenation. Instead, always use placeholders.
Martin is of course absolutely right! > If you have many fragments, the translator gets the challenge of > translating "dollars". Now, this might need to be translated differently > in different contexts (and perhaps even depending on the value of > balance); the translator must always get the complete message > as a single piece. Plus, if you have multiple placeholders, the order may change in some translations. -Barry
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