Re: gnumeric: Note to translators

[Bruno Haible <haible ilog fr>]

Karl Eichwalder writes:

> > Maybe one needs another macro that takes the string to translate and a
> > group string used to put things together.
> > 
> > _#("Mean", "Math")
> > 
> > _#("Tan", "Math")
> 
> That's an interesting idea.  I'm inclined to believe that's the way to
> go in the long run.

Yes. KDE is using the same technique. Improving the support for this
notation is on the gettext TODO list for 0.10.37.

> #. * Note to translators: in the following string and others like it,
> #. * the "/" is a separator character that can be changed to anything
> #. * if the translation needs the slash; just use, say, "|" instead.
> #. *
> #. * The items are bundled like this to increase translation context.
> #.
> #: src/analysis-tools.c:798
> msgid ""
> "/Mean/Standard Error/Median/Mode/Standard Deviation/Sample "
> "Variance/Kurtosis/Skewness/Range/Minimum/Maximum/Sum/Count"

Man, split this! How is a translator supposed to update his
translation after you change "Range" to "Domain", without getting mad?

Bruno