Re: [PATCH 00/10] Factorization of messages with similar meaning

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2021, 07:31 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqfsr7mrs5.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <d687f69b-efdc-6b1c-c63c-8544ff37d1c2@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

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> Another aspect is that translators lose context. For example, "%s and %s
> are mutally exclusive" may have to be translated differently depending
> on what kind of text is substituted for %s. In this example it's
> probably always command line options (I haven't checked), so not an
> immediate problem. But something to keep in mind.

Yup. I do not think we are quite ready to have two identical msgid strings to be translated into two different msgstr strings. We've briefly talked about pgettext() a few months ago, but nothing concrete came out of it, as far as I can recall.

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