[etoys-dev] Experimenting msgctxt supprort (SQ-139)

[Markus Schlager]

Hi Korakurider,


On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Korakurider wrote:

> For http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-139 ,
> I am playing with prototype of msgctxt support in Etoys and want to
> discuss with you about this.

That's great news! It will help to solve some real issues with 
localization.

> 	3) transCtxExplicit-KR
> 				#translatedWithContext:
> 				and #translatedNoopWithContext:
> 				-- variant of #translated and #translatedNoop
> 				   with manually specified msgctxt
>

Just to get an idea, what an explicit message-context could be:

>From my viewpoint being translator, particularly usefull msgctxt would be

- programming-tile
- menu-entry
- balloon-help

More technically speeking, msgctxt is necessary to identify short strings 
in particular uniquely within po-files. This is needed for example in 
order to use the suggestions-functionality on the pootle 
translation-server.

Markus