From: Pierre Abbat (phma@webjockey.net)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 05:57:40 EDT
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 15:00, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:51:31PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 14:47, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> > > gettext can't really handle two strings that are equal in english, but
> > > may be written in different ways in another language according to
> > > context.
> >
> > Actually, it can be made to handle this through an extension that is
> > actually beneficial for translators. Nautilus does this, and I plan on
> > having the next version of Abi handle it too.
> > "Free[as is beer]"
> > "Free[as in speech]"
>
> Ah, nice, I didn't know this. Of course, the obvious question follows...
> What if [...] is part of the string and not something to cut out?
Why can't you put an entry in en-US.po like this?:
msgid "Free[as in beer]"
msgstr "Free"
phma
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