[wp-polyglots] Theme translation

[Abel Cheung]

On 3/20/07, René Clausen Nielsen <rcn at shevy.dk> wrote:
> gettext functions. Should some l10n team (particularly non western, I guess)
> think that they'd have to hardcode the translation, I'm certain they would

No, that's the last thing people want, even for non-western languages.
It's only when english are marked incorrectly that non-english people
start to wipe it out and hardcode their own translation. I mean
hypothetical situation like:

<?php echo '%d' . __('Response') . ' ' . __('by') . ' ' . '%s' ?>

This kind of chopping makes most non-english translation impossible.
Avoid this and people would be more than happy.

Abel


> be able to wipe out the gettext strings just as easy as simply translating
> the bits we have already translated. Actually, it would probably be a lot
> easier to pinpoint the strings in need of translation if they are marked by
> __e's etc.
>
> I say, leave it to the translation team to decide whether their users would
> be able to insert new functions in a gettexted theme or not.
>
> /René
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