[Ocaml-i18n] proposal: message catalogue system

[Richard Jones]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:57:20PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On one very large website that I worked on (in Perl), we translated
> the whole site using just gettext into 7 languages (including Thai and
> Arabic [right-to-left]).

I forget to mention that we did modify gettext to support
placeholders.  Thus you could write (in Perl):

  _("Number of messages in ::folder:: : ::n::", folder => $foldername,
                                                n => $nr_messages)

or something similar.

The problem with this was that the external translators would end up
translating ::folder::, so we started to use single letters like ::f:: !

Rich.

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