elixir-gettext/expo

String Formatting

Closed this issue · 3 comments

maennchen commented

Support restructuring of message strings.

Right now, the only option is to preserve the line splitting:

  • .po (read & write) should produce an identical file
  • .mo does not contain line information, everything is one single string

TODO

  • Introduce rebalance_strings function on translation struct
  • Introduce rebalance_strings function on all translations (including headers)

Behaviour of rebalance_strings

  • Fields
    • msgid
    • msgid_plural
    • msgstr
    • headers
  • Split at newlines and put every line in its own string
  • Split words at maxlength?
maennchen commented

@kipcole9 Does this cover what you imagined?

Should we impose a max length (only splitting space between words) or should we only split on newlines?

kipcole9 commented

I think splitting at newlines would be more human readable. Overall this is looking really good! And it goes a long way to towards the original intent of separating serialisation of messages so that other serialization backend could be possible.

maennchen commented

Replaced with #23