Re: Different translations for a single string in debian installer

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

On 23/10/2006, at 2:31 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > the Debian Installer uses the string "none" in various packages  
> > but only
> > one translation can be provided for all these:
> >
> > #: ../partman-basicfilesystems.templates:172 ../base- 
> > installer.templates:101
> > #: ../partman-lvm.templates:19
> > msgid "none"
> >
> > Now I noticed that the grammar requires slightly different  
> > translations
> > dependant on the usage. Any way to reach this?
>
> Yes, but breaking the string freeze. Even if it is officially over,
> I'd prefer not changing any string unless some *other* thing in D-I
> explicitely requires it. I would call that a "soft" string freeze.
>
> To have all these "none" being different msgid's woul dneed to use
> brackets to make the difference:
>
> For example
>
> msgid "none[ case 1, none refers to partition ]"
>
> msgid "none[ case 2, non refers to disk ]"

If we can't use msgctxt yet, can't we put the context into the  
comment fields instead?

Putting context into the msgid field only causes confusion. Too  
often, translators end up  translating it or retaining it, both of  
which are incorrect, as you said further down.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

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