Georg Baum wrote: > I just looked it up in the gettext manual, and if I understood it > correctly, gettext does not provide a mechanism to supply additional > context information. Instead, they suggest to mark ambigous strings like > "Menu|File|Open" and "Menu|Printer|Open" and then use a special > translation function that strips the part before the first "|". See > http://tinyurl.com/3sy5v
Why not use strings "Menu|File|Open" etc and then define an "en" po file. Jean-Marc has already established the precedent by ensuring that only ASCII characters are passed to the translation functions. -- Angus