Re: [libreoffice-l10n] gettext and translations

2017-06-04 22:23 GMT+03:00 <m.balabanov@gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> Yes, Bulgarian is also one of those inflected languages that require
> different translations to the same English phrase depending on the context.
> If we lose msgctxt, we must have another way to separate different
> instances of the same English phrase. Years ago at my workplace, we had
> this problem with an in-house l10n system and AFAIR we circumvented it by
> including the context in the original translatable string where necessary
> and then removing it in a small English ‘translation’, something like this:
>
> Original: Number|noun
> English translation: Number
> Bulgarian translation: Номер
>
> Original: Number|menu_item
> English translation: Number
> Bulgarian translation: Номериране
>
> Original: Settings
> English translation: <same as the original, so not included in the l10n
> file>
> Bulgarian translation: Настройки
>
> So this could be a fallback if the new system does not support a
> context/instance id separate aside from the translatable text itself. UI
> code can also automatically strip the part after the escaping character,
> thus eliminating the need for an English ‘translation’.

Hi,

While I appreciate the ingenuity of this approach, it would be utter
stupidity to replace a well-working implementation with msgctxt with such a
system in a l10n project the size of LibO :)

Best, Mihkel

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