Re: [Translation-i18n] Context and pipe symbols

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Thanks for your reply, Bruno :)

On 03/05/2006, at 5:35 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:

>>> gettext.html:
>>>    10.2.6 How to use gettext in GUI programs
>
> This piece of doc has been rewritten for gettext-0.15 (which is not =20=

> yet
> released).

Yes, I realize that the _new_ contextual information is not out yet.
>
>> While I appreciate that this may have been the only option in the
>> past, I thought adding contextual comments was currently the standard
>> way to introduce context into PO files. So I've been encouraging
>> developers to do that instead.
>
> Well, it's not yet the standard way, since I haven't made a release =20=

> of that
> feature yet. (It currently only exists in the gettext CVS, and =20
> using a CVS
> is something for the adventurous.) But it's ok to encourage people to
> prepare for new features, even if they are not yet released to the =20
> broad
> innocent public. When I do so, I always say "this feature is =20
> currently in the
> CVS and will be present in version 0.15", so that everyone can =20
> decide for him-/
> herself whether he/she is adventurous enough to try the CVS :-)

However, people have been using contextual comments in PO files for =20
quite some time now. I was under the impression that this was the =20
standard way to introduce context, e.g.

#. savefontdlg.c:1861
#. Translators: PFM is Print Font Manager
msgid "Saving PFM files"
msgstr ""

This is what I have encouraged developers to do, since I had thought =20
it was the correct way. It's certainly much more effective than the =20
pre-pipe-symbol method, which many translators misunderstand.

Is the 'pipe' method still the standard way of introducing context, =20
as this developer says? I thought the method shown above was standard =20=

(that's why I have been encouraging it).

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nh=C3=B3m =
=20
Vi=E1=BB=87t h=C3=B3a ph=E1=BA=A7n m=E1=BB=81m t=E1=BB=B1 do)
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