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

[Javier <jf...@co...>]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:22:56PM -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
> Translators: What is your take on this? Which format would work best for
> your tools?

In Debian (well, in the Debian Installer) we have used brackets in the PO
strings to disambiguate strings. The po-debconf tool (which is
Debian-specific) strips the brackets from PO strings so that they are not
used on program output). So, you could have this:

msgid "none[Refers to a man]"
msgstr "ninguno"

msgid "none[Refers to a woman]"
msgstr "ninguna"

[ Note: this is an example of a word which refers to a gender ]

Brackets are, however, currently used in some msgid's in Gaim. Maybe you
could use a different bracket (maybe {} ?) that would get removed somehow?

> 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.

I wouldn't mind if some strings got fuzzy because of this, that would make me
review if I translated them correctly.

Regards

Javier