2017-06-04 22:23 GMT+03:00 <m.balaba...@gmail.com>: > Hello, > > Yes, Bulgarian is also one of those inflected languages that require > different translations to the same English phrase depending on the context. > If we lose msgctxt, we must have another way to separate different > instances of the same English phrase. Years ago at my workplace, we had > this problem with an in-house l10n system and AFAIR we circumvented it by > including the context in the original translatable string where necessary > and then removing it in a small English ‘translation’, something like this: > > Original: Number|noun > English translation: Number > Bulgarian translation: Номер > > Original: Number|menu_item > English translation: Number > Bulgarian translation: Номериране > > Original: Settings > English translation: <same as the original, so not included in the l10n > file> > Bulgarian translation: Настройки > > So this could be a fallback if the new system does not support a > context/instance id separate aside from the translatable text itself. UI > code can also automatically strip the part after the escaping character, > thus eliminating the need for an English ‘translation’. >
Hi, While I appreciate the ingenuity of this approach, it would be utter stupidity to replace a well-working implementation with msgctxt with such a system in a l10n project the size of LibO :) Best, Mihkel -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: l10n+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/l10n/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
