Re: Context in translations, Q_() and gettext

["Leonardo Fontenelle" <leo fontenelle gmail com>]

+1

Leonardo Fontenelle
http://leonardof.org/2007/11/24/hibernate-is-necessary-proprietary-driver-is-not-so-necessary/en/

2007/11/25, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>:
> > As most GNOME packages use intltool to generate/update po files, do you
> > know which minimal version of intltool is required to support/implement
> > this feature?
> >
> > Current version on l10n.gnome.org is:
> >  gettext 0.14.5
> >  intltool 0.35.5
>
> >From looking at FindPOTKeywords in intltool-update, it appears you can override
> the keyword options that intltool-update passes to xgettext by setting
> XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in po/Makevars or XGETTEXT_KEYWORDS in po/Makefile.in.in.
>
> So, you should be able to switch to msgctxt by requiring gettext 0.15 and adding
> XGETTEXT_KEYWORDS=--keyword=_ --keyword=N_ --keyword=Q_:1g --keyword=C_:1c,2
> to po/Makefile.in.in
>
> If the Gnome translators agree that conversion to msgctxt would be a good
> thing, then this may make a good Gnome Goal.
>
> As an aside, I believe that KDE4 is also going to use msgctxt in po files.
>
>
> Matthias
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