On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:23 -0500, Steve Borho wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Trey Roessig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> +        if sumlen and len(lines[0].rstrip()) > sumlen:
> >>> +            resp = Confirm(_('Commit'), [], self,
> >>> +                           _('The summary line length of %i is greater 
> >>> than'
> >>> +                             ' %i.  Would you like to continue?' %
> >>
> >> The gettext wrapper _() should only go around the string.
> >
> > Just to be sure I understand, you'd want to see
> >
> >  _("This is my value: %i") % val
> >
> > instead of
> >
> >  _("This is my value: %i" % val)
> >
> > Correct?  No problem at all.  May I ask why?
> 
> the _() function is doing a string lookup for translation.  The only sane way
> to do translations is to perform them before variable substitutions.
> 
> I noticed that one of these slipped by me in a previous patch in your
> word wrap function.

On the other hand, sometimes is useful add a comment for translators
(before the _()).  It may give the a clue about what is supposed to be
the variable.

The way a variable is located in a sentence may be constructed different
in a different language (i.e. right-to-left written).

-- 
Germán Póo-Caamaño
Concepción - Chile
http://www.calcifer.org/


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