Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Question about odd use of msgctxt

Well, the msgctxt fields itself say that one is the name and the other
is the description. In case some language needs more space that is not
allowed for name but can be fitted in description, they can translate
this string in two ways - the short and non-descriptive in name and
the long and more descriptive in description. Even the English string
might one day get longer if user base says that the name and
description are too vague. So looking at po files just from the side
of repetition of strings might not be very productive (even if it look
the way around, that repetition of same strings in po files is not
productive).

Lp, m.

2012/7/10 Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com>:
> Hello LibreOffice L10n team,
>
> Is there a logical reason that so many of the PO files for LibreOffice
> have seemingly extraneous msgctxt comments that are simply a
> repetition of the location?
>
> Just one extreme example:
>
> scp2/source/xsltfilter.po
>
> Is it really necessary to translate "XSLT Sample Filters" twice (as
> enforced by the msgctxt comment).  Is there ever going to be a
> difference in the way the first and second instance is translated?  Is
> this just some hack to address builds in Windows that don't use
> gettext properly?
>
> I'm very interested to understand the logic behind this curious
> choice.  There are many downsides to this practice (abuse of msgctxt)
> which I could describe at greater length if needed.
>
> #. No_K
> #: module_xsltfilter.ulf#STR_NAME_MODULE_OPTIONAL_XSLTFILTERSAMPLES.LngText.text
> msgctxt "module_xsltfilter.ulf#STR_NAME_MODULE_OPTIONAL_XSLTFILTERSAMPLES.LngText.text"
> msgid "XSLT Sample Filters"
> msgstr ""
>
> #. Bq1B
> #: module_xsltfilter.ulf#STR_DESC_MODULE_OPTIONAL_XSLTFILTERSAMPLES.LngText.text
> msgctxt "module_xsltfilter.ulf#STR_DESC_MODULE_OPTIONAL_XSLTFILTERSAMPLES.LngText.text"
> msgid "XSLT Sample Filters"
> msgstr ""
>
>
>
> would normally appear as:
>
> #: module_xsltfilter.ulf#STR_NAME_MODULE_OPTIONAL_XSLTFILTERSAMPLES.LngText.text
> #: module_xsltfilter.ulf#STR_DESC_MODULE_OPTIONAL_XSLTFILTERSAMPLES.LngText.text
> msgid "XSLT Sample Filters"
> msgstr ""
>
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