string with parameters

[turquoiseowl]

string with parameters

[raulvejar]

Mmmm... i don't think it will produce the right pot entry unless it's static text. Depending on what you insert as a parameter then the syntax would change for some languages (for example languages where nouns have gender). Translators would need more context to translate appropiately.
If you are planning on putting constant variables anyways why would you need to parametize it?

[juanl]

Sorry, maybe I've not explained properly. When I said:
__("Hello {0}!", "juan") or __("you've earned {0} point of {1}", 1, 10)
I've try to say:
__("Hello {0}!", session["name"])
__("you've earned {0} point of {1}", pointsEarned, TotalPoints)

These are not constant variables...

I've dealed with this in other platforms and of course, always translators need a good context to translate any string appropiately....

Best
Juan

[turquoiseowl]

Seems like a good idea. xgettext will pick up okay the __() function calls with more than one argument, so it should work fine.

As to what gettext/PO best practice is for what you want, can't comment but there is stuff in the spec on how to do it.

[turquoiseowl]

There is stuff in the spec about plurals which I don't think this library supports right now.

[turquoiseowl]

Here's quite a nice example of a localized and parameterized HTML 'title' attribute being generated using razor and i18n v2.0:

  using (Html.BeginForm("ExternalSignin", "Account", new { ReturnUrl = ViewBag.ReturnUrl })) {
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    <fieldset>
      <legend>[[[Sign in using another service]]]</legend>
      @foreach (AuthenticationClientData p in Model) {
        <button
          class="low" 
          type="submit"
          name="provider" 
          value="@p.AuthenticationClient.ProviderName"
          @_("Sign up or in using your {0} account", "title", p.DisplayName)
          >@p.DisplayName</button>
      }
    </fieldset>
  }

And for fun, an alternative way of doing the same thing using the proposed 'nugget' feature:

  using (Html.BeginForm("ExternalSignin", "Account", new { ReturnUrl = ViewBag.ReturnUrl })) {
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
    <fieldset>
      <legend>[[[Sign in using another service]]]</legend>
      @foreach (AuthenticationClientData p in Model) {
        <button
          class="low" 
          type="submit"
          name="provider" 
          value="@p.AuthenticationClient.ProviderName"
          title="@string.Format("[[[Sign up or in using your %0 account|||{0}]]]", p.DisplayName)"
          >@p.DisplayName</button>
      }
    </fieldset>
  }

Note that this is in the v2.0 branch, not master at the moment.