I don't know what the prevailing practice is as I just started on the multilingual programming trail as well. I however, decided to use full statements as the keys for three reasons,

• I can use _AUTO.
• While developing, I'm likely to change my messages frequently
• Full English (in my case) statements carry more context and tell the translator more about how the phrase should be worded without having to resort to reading the code, or involking that part of the program to see what the key means.

The third reason is probably the "best" reason, though the first two were the ones that sold me (since I'm also doing it "for fun").

Good Day,
    Dean

---

If we didn't reinvent the wheel, we wouldn't have rollerblades.

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.