[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Identifiers instead of English strings

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:53 +0200, Markku Vire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> > Is there some explanation somewhere about the use of these strange
> > identifiers instead of English strings in the maemo source code. What is
> > the advantage?
> 
> As far as I know the motivation was that this quaranteed that no 
> ambiguity is present. Same words could mean different things in 
> different contexts.

As far as I know, gettext() can already handle that by providing extra
context or comments for the translators.

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Murray Cumming
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