[Sugar-devel] [Fwd: [PATCH] use the spanish verb "quitar" for unmounting devices]

[Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero]

2010/5/19 Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>:
> El Tue, 18-05-2010 a las 12:30 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 23:07, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> > In both cases, we need to make the strings distinct in the code.
>> > In C, I'd specify the context in which the string is used, like so:
>> >
>> >     pgettext("Device Icon", "Remove")
>> >
>> > However, Python's gettext module does not yet support pgettext():
>> >
>> >  http://bugs.python.org/issue2504
>> >
>> > How is this handled in Sugar?
>>
>> You can add some context to a string with a TRANS: comment.
>
> It's not just a problem of providing context to the human translators:
> the english string "Remove" will be merged with other identical strings
> throughout the UI which have different semantic meaning.
>
> For example, "Remove" on the activity icon really means "Borrar", not
> "Quitar" or "Extraer". To solve this ambiguity, gettext provides a
> function with an additional hidden string used only to discriminate the
> context.
>
> I followed up the Python bug asking for possible work-arounds.

String comments  and context are key to differentiate translations,
sometimes it is easier when the developer makes  clarifications in the
POT file.



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