I sense a mild friction here :) - whilst Massimo is a T() person,
AChipa advocates in favour of gettext()!
AChipa's example is exactly what I have now, and I'm attempting to get
away from it as quickly as possible.
I could not agree more: word-by-word translation is plain suicide.
For the moment, I'll stick to what I've come up with, merged with
Massimo's XML(T()) solution. (i.e. writing the whole thing manually,
formatting with "%s" and URL() for each href.
That should yield a fairly graceful translation of the text.
Thanks to both of you.
On Jan 18, 2:08 pm, achipa <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, something along the lines of
>
> T("To %(link1) or %(link2) to be") % {'link1' : A(T("be"),
> _href="..."), 'link2' : A(T("not"), _href="...")}
>
> might also work if you really want to keep the helpers for some
> reason.
>
> Note that you probably don't want to do T() on single words as they
> have a high chance of overlapping (for example "be" is not likely to
> have a uniform translation in most languages). While tedious,in such
> cases you should use a prefix and a dictonary for your base language,
> too (since we don't have domains like gettext).
>
> On Jan 18, 7:50 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > I can think of other solutions but the one you propose seems the
> > simplest one.
>
> > {{=XML(str(T("To <a href="%s">bla bla</a>",url)))}}
>
> > On Jan 17, 9:03 pm, Tari <robert.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello again,
>
> > > As I dive deeper and deeper into the (exciting) world of web2py, I
> > > come to face increasingly tough challenges. I've searched and read the
> > > discussions back and forth, yet could not find an acceptable solution
> > > for my T() problem.
>
> > > Suppose you have to translate this entire expression, together with
> > > the text A() renders:
>
> > > ("To ", A("Be", _href="..."), " or ", A("Not", _href="..."), " to Be")
>
> > > How would you set about it?
>
> > > Naturally,
>
> > > (T("To "), A(T("Be"), _href="..."), T(" or "), A(T("Not"),
> > > _href="..."), T(" to Be"))
>
> > > is out of the question (word order, negation, etc.)
>
> > > The only way I can think of right now is to drop the A() helper and
> > > write the whole text manually along with each <a> tag, then wrap it in
> > > T(), and pray the links don't change... I really hope there is a less
> > > painful way, both keeping the A() helper and translating the text in
> > > its entirety.
>
> > > Thanks for the help.
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