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["P. Christeas" <xrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 November 2011, Viktor Nagy wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I would like to find a solution to a translation problem. The problem is
> relatively simple: One option on the cancel/refund invoice wizard is to
> choose an invoice type "Cancel". Actually, there are languages where Cancel
> invoice and Cancel button can not be translated with the same string, but
> both words are present in the account addon.
> 
> The obvious solution to this seems to rewrite the "Cancel" option for
> invoice to "Cancel Invoice" for example, as this string could be easily
> translated. But this would break all existing (and I guess working)
> translations. Is there an accepted way to correct bugs like this?
> 

Well, IMHO, not at a "stable" release. Such string changes would belong to 
"feature" releases, where language teams are given a window of time to adapt 
their translations.

There was a thought of using the "context" feature/marker, as described in GNU 
gettext, to disambiguate such cases: eg. have Cancel/@verb, Cancel@/state 
Cancel/@operation , fed to translators on different entries.



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