>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Angus> Georg Baum wrote:
>> I just looked it up in the gettext manual, and if I understood it
>> correctly, gettext does not provide a mechanism to supply
>> additional context information. Instead, they suggest to mark
>> ambigous strings like "Menu|File|Open" and "Menu|Printer|Open" and
>> then use a special translation function that strips the part before
>> the first "|". See http://tinyurl.com/3sy5v

Angus> Why not use strings "Menu|File|Open" etc and then define an
Angus> "en" po file. Jean-Marc has already established the precedent
Angus> by ensuring that only ASCII characters are passed to the
Angus> translation functions.

Or we could allow for a different syntax like "To|[EMAIL PROTECTED]", where the
part after @ is ignored in the shortcut.

JMarc

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