Thread:Translating talk:Mifos/Inconsistent capitalisation?/reply (3)

Ideally you would be using parameter replacement and markdown or something for this. A quick scan using Google found MarkdownJ. Then the message to be translated would be something like:

" "

Any patchwork will be hard/impossible to translate in some language, and it makes life for translators really hard, because in essence they have to solve crossword puzzles next to having to properly translate the product. It's really important to have mechanisms that allow developers to easily use a concept like the above, so that they will not have to resort to using patchwork, or when they do, they can be slapped, because there are alternatives.