Re: [Enlightenment-intl] My ja.po

[David S. <dav...@gm...>]

On 4/30/05, Massimo Maiurana <mai...@in...> wrote:
> Il giorno Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:11:09 +0900 David scrisse:
>=20
> > I have a question too. I believe the templates are generated
> > automatically, but there is one line in the file  like this:
> > #: src/modules/dropshadow/e_mod_main.c:257
> > #src/modules/ibar/e_mod_main.c:754
> > msgid "Medium"
> > msgstr "__"
> >
> > So the string "Medium" is getting used for both dropshadow (in terms
> > of sharpness) and the ibar (in terms of size). The context is slightly
> > different, so ideally I would want to do this:
<snip>
> > Would that screw anything up?
>=20
> perhaps your problem could affect other languages, so even if it works
> the way you say it could be better to change the source to have two
> different items in the generated enlightenment.pot.
>=20
> a similar thing was done to separate two occurences of the word "close",
> one referring to the distance of the dropshadow from the window, which
> has been modified in "near", and the other referring to the menu item to
> close an opened window.
>=20
> just my 2 cents :)

I was scratching around at the Gnone and KDE translation project
pages, and it looks like there is a way of embedding "context
information" into the messages. I couldn't really find details of what
is involved though, just an overview... but it sounds useful here as
well (^_^)