Re: Need more comments to clarify meaning of msgid

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 26/01/2006, at 7:09 AM, Denis Barbier wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:43:16PM +0200, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> > > Could the programmers who internationalize their packages be
> > > encouraged to put comments in the msgid entry to clarify what
> > > kind of object those text macro things may be?
> >
> > Unfortunately, afaik, the gettext tools are not that smart... Please
> > contact the Serbian (KDE) translation team. I know for a fact that
> > they were working last summer on a fix for this issue, as they have
> > the same kind (or simillar) problems.
>
> AFAICT you are talking about the "Context, disambiguation,  
> translator info"
> thread in
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php? 
> forum_id=7939&viewmonth=200509
> which is a different issue.  Here it looks like comments can be added
> to the PO file.

As Bjorn said, the debian-installer files, especially Level 1,  
already provide some explanatory comments. In fact, they are shining  
examples of supplied context, especially compared with most other  
files I have to translate (GIMP is probably the worst example in the  
other direction: not a scrap of context, and some incredibly terse  
strings).

So all that's needed is a bit more of the excellent work already  
being done. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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