Re: Strings with context wrongly translated in gtk+ and epiphany

["Abel Cheung" <abelcheung gmail com>]

On 9/13/06, David Lodge <dave cirt net> wrote:
> This does lead to an interesting question though. gok has a selection of
> strings for extra characters on the keyboard, which may or may not exist,
> these are given a context. Translation of the first few levels is easy, as
> this is the normal lower case, upper case, symbols etc., but gok provides
> two extra levels (with a context) to allow extra characters. For en_GB
> this means that whence the context is removed the strings are empty.
>
> So I'm now getting "untranslated" strings on gok. (well only one as I
> added the Euro symbol to level2 :-) Any idea of how these strings should
> be translated?

That depends on how gok handles it. If transating it into anything
would adversely affect gok's behavior, I'd suggest not translating it.

Abel

> The strings from the .po file:
> #. Not used in C locale: this string can contain a third set of characters
> #. * at another 'shift level'.  It can be used to provide a
> second/alternate
> #. * glyph/character set for the locale, separately or in conjunction with
> #. * 'level 3'.  At the translator's discretion, accented characters can be
> #. * placed here and in 'level 3' as well.
> #.
> #.
> #. * Seldom-used or alternate characters can appear in levels 2 and 3 if
> necessary.
> #.
> #: ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:877 ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:933
> msgid "level 2|"
> msgstr "level 2|"
>
> #. For locales which need an even larger character set, or offer uppercase
> versions
> #. * of the 'level2' characters, add them to 'level 3'
> #: ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:880 ../gok/gok-keyboard.c:934
> msgid "level 3|"
> msgstr "level 3|"
>
> Thanks
>
> dave


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