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

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com> wrote:
>> #TRANS: bow and arrow
>> activeDisplay = _("Bow")
>> #TRANS: the front of a ship
>> istrDisplay = _("Bow")
>>
>> Ooh interesting, not bumped into this need myself yet, but (as a cheat) it
>> strikes me that gettext is using the given strings as IDs for its string
>> lookups so you could replace your strings with _("Arrow|Bow")
>> and _("Ship|Bow"), then make sure the pot file actually has the correct Bow
>> msgstr set. I think though what your really looking for is context support
>> but have not tinkered other than a few min googling:
>
> Just to make sure I understand your solution, if the activity is run in an
> untranslated language, won't "Arrow|Bow" be displayed?

I think you can fill in (by hand) the msgstr in your POT file and it
will "do the right thing" for untranslated languages.

-walter

> I was thinking to use "bow" and "bow ", and them trim all white space before
> displaying in an activity.
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