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

[From: Ross Burton]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 16:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 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.

Correct, if there is a source comment near the translation it gets put
into the PO.  This is often used to inform translators of context,
partial strings, etc.

Ross
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