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Janice Caron a écrit :
> On 9/15/07, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The model is, programmers write the code, then translators provide the
>> international translations. The goal is to minimise the dependency
>> between the two. Therefore, I believe that substitution by argument
>> index is the right thing to do.
> 
> ....otherwise, you might find the translators also translating the
> variable names, and that would be disastrous! Translators must be
> allowed to have zero knowledge of programming. In general, they only
> work with text files, Word documents or whatever. Programmers later
> algorithmically incorporate that into program source.

Sorry but if the translated strings contains variables, the translators 
must know the variables they can have so that they can put them at the 
correct location.

So blind translations works only for pure strings, not format strings 
which was what we were talking about.

> (I did say internationalisation really requires its own thread!)

Agreed.

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