Re: [Po4a-devel] Translatable attributes in HTML
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 12:50:21PM +0200, Yves Rutschle wrote:
> Note also that you may want to try the xhtml module. It may
provide
> a better result (even if it's for regular HTML and not XHTML).
I second that.
Unfortunately the XHTML backend is not suitable for us. Our pages are
XHTML, but they only become valid when the web server processes the
various #include directives.
<p>Independance day is on the 4<sup>th</sup> of
July</p>
Turns into 3 msgids:
[...]
This is awkward at best, but worse is that it won't help
translation in many languages.
Yes, this violates the rule of thumb for i18n not to break sentences in
this manner. It becomes even worse if you have things <em>like</em>
<i>this</i> where in some languages you have to insert a preposition or
something else between them.
OTOH, Html.pm produces markup-free POT files, which is very good for our
purpose: to separate the content entirely so the translator doesn't have
to repeat the error-prone process of duplicating the markup. But if it
turns out that it is not possible to translate the content properly in
some languages, this gain means nothing.
Sigh...