Hi all, I’m heavily conflicted on gettext and how to best use the msgsid. The official way of using gettext is by using the msgid as the text as needs to be displayed. For example “Hi, %name}, good to see you again!”. As far as I understand, the big reason for this is that when you change the te…

I tried the key-based approach for a while because I felt like it was more… correct, but I ran into the following downsides: In the template you don’t see the actual text anymore (you’re already keeping a mental model in your head of markup => design, so abstract keys don’t help there) Extra choic…

In addition to that, there are usually scripts available that can extract all of your gettext snippets from the code base to create the translation files for you. When you or somebody else sits down to write the snippets in another language, having the key already be the reference language is reall…

[image] brightball: In addition to that, there are usually scripts available that can extract all of your gettext snippets from the code base to create the translation files for you. This is what Gettext for Elixir does as well with mix gettext.extract.

It really depends and you should test your workflow e2e before finally deciding.. I recommend using normal text as the key, that makes the developer happy, and the devs don’t have to go through the entire translation workflow every time they add a string of text. gettext has a context metadata thi…

Keys have one single advantage: Somebody can correct the messages in the base language (because there is no base language). With gettext you either have to change the source code or you have to define your base language as “broken English” and provide a translation catalog for proper English. Othe…

Gettext msgid's. Keys or Strings?

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whatyouhide April 21, 2017, 8:21am 4

This is what Gettext for Elixir does as well with mix gettext.extract.