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[Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 08:17:18AM -0400, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> On 2019-06-04 05:58, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> > 
> > msgid "Filo %s da (%s, %s) a (%s, %s)"
> > 
> > Without any comment in the code it is difficult to translate that string
> > in a meaningful and/or correct way until you try to use it and find the
> > results, that is not always possible, pratical.
> 
> Hi Marco-
> 
> This seems like a really good suggestion and one that should be
> straightforward to implement.  Can you give an example of where you would
> like to see the comment and what sort of comment would have been helpful in
> the above example?


In this example %s was substituted by "vertical" or "horizontal". That is
not that clear until you see the string in the running the program.

It could be useful to add a short comment just for translators that
explains how the %s are replaced by some keywords, for example.

Gettext should be able to add it as a the string translation aid comment[*]

#For translators: Clarify selection dialog
#Ex: "Vertical Wire from (x,y) to (x,y)"

or just a:

#For translators: "Vertical/Horizontal Wire from (x,y) to (x,y)"

will suffice

[*]Somewhere in the gettext manual (I just can't find it right now
https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html) is written that
if someone puts some comments just before or after the translatable
string, gettext will put that comment as a comment again, as a header for
the translatable string in the .po file.


TIA


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