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This article makes me unreasonably glad to be working in a framework (Django) with good i18n tooling and few special needs re: textual images.
by haikuginger 9y ago
This article makes me unreasonably glad to be working in a framework (Django) with good i18n tooling and few special needs re: textual images.
- raverbashing 9y agoDjango solves the pluralizing issues (with some limitations) but it won't (can't) solve gender issues in translation. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/?from=olddocs#pluralize https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins... It doesn't help when the plural is 1/2/many or something different (example: Arabic/Icelandic, etc) http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/en/latest/l10n/pluralforms.html http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/localization-guide/e...
- haikuginger 9y agoDjango provides ungettext for the pluralizing problem, and pgettext, if implemented conscientiously, for the gender problem.