Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-05-23 10:29, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> Say I have:
>
> gettext("%s: unknown variable at line %s")
>
> Then I want to change the text to:
>
> gettext("%s: not yet known variable at line %s")
>
> I have to find all places where this text is used in the code. Then I
> also need to updated the translations. If I used a key instead I only
> need to update all the translations. I don't need to change my code.

Also, with the key approach I can just send a separate file to someone 
else to do the translation, even the English translation. Sure I 
probably could have a separate file for the English translation as well 
but that would be duplicating the string.

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/Jacob Carlborg