Re: Comments (was: About dpkg translation, please consider i18n when choosing words
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Clytie Siddall wrote:
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> On 14/06/2005, at 8:17 PM, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> [re gettext]
>
> > I knew it a bit too well for a while. It is far from
> > perfect, but having comments as a part of the message-ids is
> > an excellent way of making otherwise implicit grammatical
> > information explicit.
>
> Exactly: I'm a bit puzzled by _suggestions_ to implement developer or
> translator comments: those facilities are a basic element of all
> gettext .po files.
>
> In the case of the translator, all you need to do to this string:
[rather obvious]
The problem is developer comments, not translator comments. When a string
has a special context (or maximum length), there should be an automatic
comment in the pot file.
Cheers
Luk
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