Marking translatable strings

Mon Oct 11 13:58:49 EDT 1999

Skip Montanaro <skip at mojam.com> wrote:
> Barry> Writing it _('translate') is, I think the best approach, and the
> Barry> one I plan to take when I (eventually) get time to
> Barry> internationalize Mailman.
>> How do you distinguish between a translatable string and a call to a
> function named "_"?

fwiw, we're shipping massively multilingual
applications using the T() approach. works
perfectly, with off-the-shelf pythons...
(so as usual, eff-bot's advise is to spend all this
energy writing applications, instead of trying
to figure out why a perfectly working strategy
doesn't work ;-)
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