Thanks for your reply Iceberg. You're of course right. I didn't
consider that changing the original
effectively changes the lookup key - but for my app that's fine. In
general one should probably have
separate files.
HC
On 16 Aug., 17:40, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
> Now I understand your headache. I felt that before when my application
> needed to provide a lengthy manual in different languages. Eventually
> I think "lengthy paragraph translating" is beyond the scope of any
> "simple" i18n mechanism. So I decided to not bother the i18n, just
> solve it via a raw way: prepare and maintain a manual_en.html and a
> manual_bz.html and ... etc by human. Of course you can still "abuse"
> the i18n mechanism to do the same thing, it works but merely
> efficient: any slight change of source string forces you to re-
> translate the whole paragraph again.
>
> Sorry that my feedback doesn't provide any substantial help.
>
> Regards,
> Iceberg
>
> On Aug16, 10:47pm, hcvst <hcv...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Iceberg,
>
> > it's a lengthy paragraph and I want to be able to translate it as one
> > because
> > the other language's word order is different.
> > Is there a better way?
>
> > How would one translate for example:
>
> > """
> > <b>Caipirinha</b> is <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</
> > a>'s national cocktail, made with <a href="/wiki/Cacha%C3%A7a"
> > title="Cachaça">cachaça</a>
> > """ (from wikipedia)
>
> > into
>
> > """
> > <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>'s national cocktail,
> > made with <a href="/wiki/Cacha%C3%A7a" title="Cachaça">cachaça</a> is
> > <b>Caipirinha</b>
> > """
>
> > That was my problem.
>
> > HC
>
> > On Aug 16, 4:12 pm, Iceberg <iceb...@21cn.com> wrote:
>
> > > Your answer might work, but I would suggest B(T('Howto')). The point
> > > is to separate language string (the "Howto") from appearance (the
> > > "<b>...</b>").
>
> > > On Aug15, 7:34pm, hcvst <hcv...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Is it
> > > > {{=XML(T('<b>Howto</b>'))}}
> > > > One tends to find an answer only ever after submitting a question.
>
> > > > On 15 Aug., 13:22, hcvst <hcv...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > I am sure I've seen this question here before but I cannot find it.
> > > > > Can one translate an entire paragraph including the markup?
>
> > > > > HC- Zitierten Text ausblenden -
>
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