Localized placeholders

[mickael-menu]

I believe there is an issue regarding how placeholders are handled in display statements. The technique documents contain basic concatenation instructions to handle placeholders:

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This works fine for English, but we can't guarantee the placeholder will always be located at the end of the sentence. Here's an example translating this sentence in Japanese:

I suggest instead using actual placeholders in the strings. Positional placeholders (e.g. $1) are fine, but named placeholders are easier to understand by translators and less error-prone.

I don't know what type of placeholders does GitLocalize support, but it could be something easy-to-read like that:

The publication was certified on {date}

Related issue: #460

[HadrienGardeur]

I fully agree with @mickael-menu, to make these strings usable we would need interpolated strings as suggested above.

We also need to make sure that some of those strings (date for instance) are localized by the implementer. Displaying an ISO8601 date to the user, would make very little sense.

[gautierchomel]

Editors agreed it would be the right path but stated that it was a significant change to make and decided to defer to the next version.