[Koha-bugs] [Bug 26392] Wrap all translatable strings in opac-main.tt

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26392

--- Comment #48 from Katrin Fischer <katrin.fischer at bsz-bw.de> ---
I haven't heard any good argument for tokens yet tbh. I think they would just
obscure the templates and make them harder for people to work with. Koha is a
huge application by now, that has a lot of strings, we'd also end up with tons
of tokens. 

For the discussion:

I think we need to discuss pros and cons of rewriting all our templates,
because of the consequences:

* A ton of pending code would have to be rewritten
* Backporting patches would be harder for quite a while/versions
* It would add another 'not so obvious' thing for development that is an
additional barrier for people starting out
* Template files will be bigger/contain more code.
* We need to investigate a possible performance issue.
* We could save 'space' as templates files won't need to be copied for each
added language any longer.
* We could see if we could shorten some of the constructs a bit more - the
BLOCK/EXPAND especially.
* We would need good documentation.
* We would need to carefully the change for translators, not only locally, but
also in Pootle.
* We need to solve the issue where Pootle marks strings using {} placeholders
as an error which makes things really hard for translators right now.

So far I totally see the pros for using the new techniques for plural forms and
context where words can have different meaning/need different translations, and
we have already started to introduce them to the templates. But I am not
totally persuaded that we should do a total switch (yet)

I think this is not something that can go through dev/sign-off/QA/RM with only
a few people involved in the discussion, it's something a lot more people need
to be aware of and given the possibility to comment on and get onboard with,
because a lot of people will be affected. So mailing list, dev meeting,
consensus, coding guidelines, documentation.

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