Re: [Gaim-i18n] Untranslatable string "Title"

[Richard L. <rl...@wi...>]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 23:49 -0400, Ambrose LI wrote:
> Right now, this string cannot be translated into Chinese because "title" =
of a column in a list (gntstatus.c, gtksavedstatuses.c) is a completely dif=
ferent word than "title" of a person (jabber/buddy.c, novell.c).

> Can something be done to disambiguate the two?

glib's gettext, which we're using, uses the Q_() macro to do this:
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-I18N.html#id2727054

However, this thread has some interesting points:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-December/msg00255.html

However, my system (Ubuntu Dapper) doesn't have a pgettext() that I can
find. Has the latter solution actually be implemented yet?

Translators: What is your take on this? Which format would work best for
your tools?

If we switch, are we going to break lots of translations? It seems like
we could fix things up with some careful sed'ing of the .po files,
though.

Richard

P.S. For the record, Ambrose LI has filed these tracker items related to
this issue: 1586519 1586521 1586540