[maemo-developers] Maemo localization to officially non-supported languages

[From: Riku Voipio]

Mohammed Hassan wrote:
>> It would be interesting to take our current translations and mine them
>> for the logical ids that map to the same Engineering English, but at
>> the same time have different translations in some language.  These are
>> the cases where we would need to use the "menu|Open" construct in the
>> code instead of the existing Engineering English string.  Identifying
>> and handling these cases is where I see a large part of the effort
>> needed to move away from logical ids, so it would be good to get an
>> overview.
>>     
>
> Multiple logical IDs with the same Engineering English string are needed
> because the translation might change according to the context.
>
>   

Actually, gettext already has tools to handle same text in different context
without using logical id:s

http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Contexts