You can do all that. Here are some examples:
name="Achipa"
T("Hello %s",name)
T("Hello %(name)s",dict(name=name))
x=0.123515
T("x=%.2f",x)
Massimo
On Dec 10, 4:40 am, achipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know we T() for this, but there are some shortcoming. As I'm dealing
> with more languages than it's probably healthy, the T() approach seems
> to have significant drawbacks compared to good (?) old gettext. I want
> to see whether some solutions already exist that I don't know about,
> or we need to do something about this to accomodate.
>
> a) string arguments. I tried something along the lines of T('User %s
> not available') % username, but that's a no go (TypeError: unsupported
> operand type(s) for %: 'lazyT' and 'str'). Obviously If I do the
> replacement within T, I cannot translate the string. I know I could
> rearrange the text so the parameter comes up on the beginning or the
> end of the string, but I'm talking concepts here. Preferably, this
> should work with dict arguments to be able to preserve word ordering
> and make translations easier. (think '%(obj)s not found in %(loc)s',
> some languages will have the parameters reversed). T('text with
> parameters', mydict) would be also ok.
>
> b) numerical parameters. It gets even more complex here. Unfortunately
> some words change shape depending on argument value (in english, this
> would be the plural 's' on the end). Some languages don't have this
> (like hungarian), others have a more complex scheme (like russian with
> 3 plurals). Gettext gets around this by having a ngettext, which takes
> a parameter, like ngettext('% files copied', n) which returns the
> string for the particular argument value. This is regulated through a
> header (an example for aforementioned russian):
>
> Plural-Forms: nplurals=3; \
> plural=n%10==1 && n%100!=11 ? 0 : \
> n%10>=2 && n%10<=4 && (n%100<10 || n%100>=20) ?
> 1 : 2;
>
> For this functionality we probably we either need to change how T()
> works, or make a two-parameter NT() and have a special dict for that
> (just a mockup idea, the selector could of course be a separate dict
> in itself):
> {
> '%s kralj_selector' : logical-expression-similar-to-the-example-
> above
> '%s kralj' : ('%s kralj', '%s kralja', '%s kraljeva')
>
> }
>
> I'd like to keep the logic as close to that of gettext's to able to
> make a convertes as there are thousands of gettext editors translators
> are familiar with, it would be a shame to use a scheme which could not
> be converted back and forth.
>
> Thoughts, comments ?
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