[Seaside] I18N these days

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Johan Brichau wrote:

> Hi Torsten
>
> We use Gettext and Seaside-Gettext.
>
> It does the job, though we are looking to extend it with strings that include variables (e.g. 'Welcome %s, today is a good day'). Right now, we just concatenate strings but that does not work very well.

I suggest you to use numbered parameters. We use #format: after 
translation, and it works well. The reason why numbered parameters are 
better is that the order of words can be very different in some languages,
and swapping {1} with {2} is possible, while swapping %s with %s makes no 
sense :).


Levente

> If anyone has already such a solution working with Gettext, I would be happy to know about it.
>
> But it should not be difficult to add.
>
> Johan
>
> On 18 Oct 2013, at 08:53, "Torsten Bergmann" <astares at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>>
>> I found https://code.google.com/p/seaside/wiki/Gettext so far - but wanted to see what others
>> use these days to easily support I18N in Seaside.
>
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