[translations] Translation (pseudo)contexts in Drupal 7

[Gábor Hojtsy]

Jose,

Good news! Drupal 7 already supports contexts natively on t() and
format_plural() in a way standard to other applications using Gettext,
and not via special hacks. See the issue on msgctxt support. Other
areas like menu titles and JS strings still lack contexts
unfortunately.

BTW the latest releases of potx and l10n_server also have  this
context support now built in (when you translate Drupal 7 stuff).

Gabor

On 7/26/09, José San Martin <jz.sanmartin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As a language with poor morphology, English sometimes does not
> distinguish verbs from nouns. Filter, Upload, Archive, Link, Update,
> Post... and many other words that are used in Drupal. Other languages
> are a more morphology-heavy and when we translate Drupal to other
> languages this ambiguity may be a problem. Take Upload, for instance.
> There is a button "Upload", but there is also a module "Upload".
> There's the need to use different words.
>
> It's not an exclusivity for noun/verbs, though. "Order" is one thing
> in Views, and another thing in Ubercart. The shorter the string, the
> easier it is to exist this kind of ambiguity.
>
> There is already the use in Drupal core of string context. The blank
> variable in "!long-month-name May" is used distinguish "May" in the
> series "January, February.." to "May" in the series "Jan, Feb...".
> This very pattern could be used elsewhere: "!noun Filter" would be
> different from "!verb Filter", so that we could translate "Filtro" and
> "Filtrar",  respectively, or "Filter" and "filtern".
>
> What do you think? Is this a good approach or something more radical
> should be done to support contexts? Perhaps a fourth symbol -
> #context, instead of "!, @, %"  , to make it mor organized? There is
> still time to fix Drupal 7.
>
> See you,
>
> José San Martin
> Brazilian translator
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