On Jul 12, 2010, at 3:15 PM, mdipierro wrote:
> Ok but can I propose we use
>
> T('canto /* my room */') instead of [[...]] to avoid confusion with
> markmin syntax? This would b easy to implement.
Or ((my room)).
Or <<my room>>.
Regardless, you'd want to specify what happens to white space. Strip
everything, I think, so T(' canto /* my room */') is equivalent to T('canto/*my
room*/').
(That's why I don't much like /*...*/, though; it's sort of ugly without extra
spaces.)
>
> On 12 Lug, 15:39, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Álvaro Justen wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 17:16, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Jul 12, 2010, at 12:51 PM, mdipierro wrote:
>>
>>>>> suggestions? :-)
>>
>>>> Ideally (from a usability pov), a variant="something" argument to T(), I
>>>> suppose. But I can't think of a non-messy way to do it.
>>
>>>> How about something like this:
>>
>>>> T('string to translate [[VARIANT something]]')
>>>> T('string to translate [[VARIANT something else]]')
>>
>>>> If there's no translation in effect, then [[VARIANT .*?]] *$ gets stripped
>>>> from the string. Otherwise it's part of the lookup. It could just be
>>
>>>> [[something]]
>>>> [[something else]]
>>
>>>> ...keeping in mind that if you really wanted that at the end of a T()
>>>> string, you could write:
>>
>>>> T('blah blah [[blah]][[]]')
>>
>>>> ...and only the trailing [[]] would be stripped.
>>
>>>> BTW, there's a typo in languages.py:
>>
>>>> # patter for a valid accept_language
>>
>>>> (and the pattern could use a comment or three)
>>
>>> I don't like the idea of changing the string to be translated. We can
>>> use a 'context' parameter as I said in other email some time ago,
>>> like:
>>> T('canto', context='my room') #translating from pt-BR to English
>>> should be 'corner'
>>> T('canto', context='music') #translating from pt-BR to English should be
>>> 'sing'
>>
>> That is, btw, my 'variant=' suggestion, above. If it's practical, I'd prefer
>> it. But embedding the variant/context into the string would be (I think)
>> less disruptive.
>>
>> T('canto [[my room]]')
>> T('canto [[music]]')
>>
>> Not as pretty, but almost identical in effect.
