> but you lose some credibility right from the start Thank you for the feedback! I updated the article to include the mention about `msgctxt`. Personally, in

> but you lose some credibility right from the start Thank you for the feedback! I updated the article to include the mention about `msgctxt`. Personally, in my experience, many project environments end up with partial support for this feature (for example many react/angular extractors don't support it) which leads to limited use and requires the localizer to request adding a context by the developer. I did not include that since it's just my personal experience and I assume more mature projects tend to recognize the feature and use it, hopefully, extensively :) > Message interpolation in gettext works and can be absolutely readable. E.g. "You have {count} items". As far as I understand this is not part of the system (gettext), but its bindings and in result is underspecified and differs between implementations. For example [0] uses `%{ count }` while [1] uses `{{ count }}`. If I'm mistaken here, please, point me to the spec :) Since it is a higher level replacement, this approach likely suffers from multiple limitations. First of all, I highly doubt that there is any BiDi isolation between interpolated arguments and the string leading to a common bug when RTL text (say, arabic) contains an LTR variable (say, a latin based name of a person). Fluent resolves it by wrapping all interpolated placeables in BiDi isolation marks. Secondly, I must assume that any internationalization, such as number formatting, date formatting, etc. is also not done from within of the resolver in gettext. That, in turn, means that it may be tricky to verify that a number is formatted using eastern arabic numerals when used in arabic translation, while formatted to western arabic when used in english translation. Fluent formats all placeables using Unicode backed intl formatters (for example in JS we use ECMA402), allowing for consistency and high quality translations where placeables get formatted together with the message. For example, in your example, will the `You have { count } items` be translated to `لديك 5 عناصر` or `لديك ٥ عناصر`? And what will happen if instead of `count`, you'd have `name: "John"`? Will it be RTL or LTR? [0] https://hexdocs.pm/gettext/Gettext.html#content https://hexdocs.pm/gettext/Gettext.html#content [1] https://angular-gettext.rocketeer.be/dev-guide/api/angular-gettext/ https://angular-gettext.rocketeer.be/dev-guide/api/angular-g...