[bbDev] Updating functions for i18n

Michael D Adams mikea at turbonet.com
Mon Oct 9 06:24:07 GMT 2006


On Oct 8, 2006, at 10:32 PM, Juan C. (PS) wrote:
> On 10/4/06, Michael D Adams < mikea at turbonet.com > wrote:
> Functions such as this do not need to use gettext.  topic_author(),
> for example, echos a username; we don't need to translate anything
> there.
>
> Yes, but when you need to merge that echo-ed data into a to-be- 
> translated string, it's a real-real mess. Look at  
> comment_author_link() and get_comment_author_link() in WordPress  
> and how it's used in line 52 of wp-admin/index.php, for a clear  
> example

Ah!  I'm sorry, I didn't understand your original email.

Now I do; I'll look at this tomorrow. Do you have a list of such  
disagreeable functions?

Thanks and apologies,
Michael

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