Quite right.
When implementing gettext, one will normally use the rule 1 string = 1
sentence (such as "please select a country").
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From: "Richard Davey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 19:48
Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-DB] multi-language site
> Hello Ignatius,
>
> Thursday, January 15, 2004, 6:41:44 PM, you wrote:
>
> IR> Gettext is NOT an automated translation service. What you do is mark
strings
> IR> to translate in the original application, then have them translated by
a
> IR> human. When confronted with a marked string to echo, the application
will
> IR> look up in the translated file for the corresponding translation.
>
> I use something very similar to this on a few of my sites. I had to
> get the whole sentences translated though - you cannot just get
> individual words translated and string them together because as you
> know, the order of the words varies dramatically from language to
> language.
>
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