Re: Context in translations, Q_() and gettext

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:01 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
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>>The important thing to get started soon is the conversion 
>>Q_("foo|bar") -> Q2_("foo", "bar")
>>so that we are done with that when the time is ripe to rely on msgctxt.
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>Yeah.  Fortunately this happens in very few places in GTK+.  I don't
>know about the rest of GNOME.
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One issue with this change is that current xgettext releases probably
won't extract strings for the Q2_() form.

>>glib requires ngettext. We don't define a shorthand macro for that,
>>though, and N_() is already taken for noop...
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>P_() for plural? :)
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Does ngettext() need a shorthand?  You use it so infrequently, a short
macro is likely to just obfuscate things.

James.