Source string contextualization

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Kévin Raymond <shaiton at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Nilamdyuti Goswami <ngoswami at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > To solve this issue, we have formed a Fedora SIG named "Source String
> > Contextualizing Group" [1] aimed at
> > providing concise yet meaningful description of the concerned source
> strings
> > in the source code itself to ensure the correctness and quality in the
> > resulting translations.
>
> It is *just* about improving the source code?
> There is already a Transifex feature which can help provide context
> without having to edit the source code.
>

Having translation context comments together with the source code is
beneficial for the same reason having API documentation together with the
source code is beneficial: they don't get out of sync.

Especially note that merely the English string is not always a sufficient
identifier of the context, unlike a function/method name in an API.  An
infamous case is the string "May" which may either be a month name or a
verb (in a software that is splicing sentences), and there already was an
application that used both.  Attaching a context within the translation
tool just wouldn't have worked.
     Mirek
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