[translations] Translation (pseudo)contexts in Drupal 7

[José San Martin]

Thanks Gábor!

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Gábor Hojtsy<gabor at hojtsy.hu> wrote:
> 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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