Re: Adding context information for tooltips
- From: "Joao S. O. Bueno" <gwidion mpc com br>
- To: "Christian Rose" <menthos gnome org>, gnome-i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Adding context information for tooltips
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:40:11 -0200
On Monday 08 December 2008, Christian Rose wrote:
> Totally agree.
> Translator comments are (or should be) there to help translators know
> how a string is used.
> Message context is there to disambiguate strings that would otherwise
> be identical in English writing, but differ in contextual meaning.
> Examples:
>
> NC_("keyboard-key", "_Add key")
> NC_("ssh-key", "_Add key")
>
> /* TRANSLATORS: This is shown in the menu. */
> N_("_Help")
This clarifies a lot, thank you.
Indeed - what I was asking for (distinguishing tooltip strings from label
strings) would require translation comments to be interleaved inside function
calls - I don'tṫ think that is feasible (having coding style in mind) - or
is it?
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-><-
>
> Christian
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