[Qt5-feedback] Translation in Qt5

[Konrad Rosenbaum]

On Wednesday 29 June 2011, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2011, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> > 29.06.2011, 03:30, "John Layt" <jlayt at kde.org>:
> > > * In Qt5 should remove forced context from Qt to restore
> > > compatability with all other translation systems.
> > 
> > Automatic context is a great feature of Qt translation systm, please
> > don't remove it.
> 
> What is great about it? IIRC it's typically set to a C++ classname, and
> translators don't typically know these names at all.

Then maybe we need some way to annotate class names for translators. In my 
projects I use contexts extensively, because sometimes translation can 
depend on context.

Another use case is customized localization. For one of my projects the 
customer maintains his own localization file to adapt program output to the 
vocabulary that the users are accustomed to and to make it more verbose. So 
for example in one dialog it translates "Cancel" to "Abort this transaction" 
and in another to "Return to main window". ...I guess this customer would 
love annotated contexts, but would hate to lose them completely.


	Konrad
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