[Sugar-devel] internationalization: homonym handling in genpot?

[Erik Blankinship]

(maybe there is genpot list where this message is more apropos?  Sorry,
genpot is opaque to me.)

My activity has two identical-in-english strings (homonyms) which need
translating, but have two different meanings depending on context in an
activity.
How should I flag genpot that these are two different strings which might
require different translations?

#TRANS: bow and arrow
activeDisplay = _("Bow")

#TRANS: the front of a ship
istrDisplay = _("Bow")

Currently python setup.py genpot produces this output, making it impossible
for the translator to handle both meanings differently:

#. TRANS: bow and arrow
#. TRANS: the front of a ship
#: constants.py:35
#: constants.py:38
msgid "Bow"
msgstr ""
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