[Development] [Interest] Direct-lookup translation, even for English (was Re: get english translation)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 04 September 2014 05:24:38 Rutledge Shawn wrote:
> It doesn't necessarily occur to an English speaker to identify translatable
> strings and wrap them in tr(), either.  It is some work already to try to
> support localization, so we are talking about people who are aware enough
> to think about supporting it.  But if we were using enum keys instead of
> string-string lookup, it would be more efficient and would also encourage
> separation of content from the means of displaying it.

Using identifiers is usually a bad idea. Every single internationalisation 
solution I've seen has migrated away from that.
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