July 13, 2020
8:03 a.m.
Guido van Rossum writes:
[several reasons why not binding _ is a no-op<wink/>, and]
A note about i18n: [...]. So can we please lay this one to rest?
Yes, please! I was just about to ask about that. I could not believe that in July 2020 people were ignoring I18N, especially the fact that I18N workers are mostly language specialists, not programmers, and are quite dependent on programmers and UI/UX workers following "the usual conventions". Yes, mostly the message catalogs are produced by software that can be taught to understand other conventions. But often translators *do* need to read source to get context for the (usually) English "key" into the message catalogs. Steve