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by: Barry Scott - Mon, 24 May 2021 19:14 UTC

> On 24 May 2021, at 19:30, Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>
> I have now come across several occasion where an author advice the use
> of f-strings above the %-formatting and the format method. However it
> seems these authors were only thinking about rather straight forward
> english communication.
>
> So what if you want your application to work with multiple languages.
> Can that be done with f-strings?

No it cannot be done. This is because a translation can reorder
the parts of the string is drastic ways that f'strings' does not allow for.

You need to use this style:

_('This %(arg1)s and %(arg2)s') % {'arg1': value_arg1, 'arg2': value_arg2}

or
_('This {arg1} and {arg2}').format(arg1=value_args, arg2=values_arg2)

A translator would be free to swap arg1 and arg2 order in a translation.

See https://docs.python.org/3/library/gettext.html for more details.
And https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2015/i18n/ looks useful as well.

Then you can use use the I18N gettext tools to make a .pot and .po files.

Barry

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