[GNC-dev] msg "Open" in gnucash/gnome/dialog-lot-viewer.c:829

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Christian,

idid you check all other occurrences. If yes, I would like to add the 
MsgContext "Adjective" to dialog-lot-viewer.c and run a msgmerge.

Regards
Frank

Am 11.09.22 um 22:05 schrieb Christian Stimming:
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> in gnucash/gnome/dialog-lot-viewer.c you recently added the function
> lot_get_closing_date() which might return the translated string "Open" if there is no such
> closing date because the lot is still in the status "opened".
> 
> There's an issue with this translation string: It is super-ambiguous. In most contexts, a
> translation string "Open" is used in the sense "to open [something]" but the string is just
> "Open" ie the verb. Contrary to this, in this particular place the string should mean
> "[something is in state] Open" but the string is also just "Open", ie the adjective. This won't
> work for translators, because in almost all other languages, the verb and the adjective will be
> two vastly different strings.
> 
> The solution is to use the C_( ) macro instead of _( ) which is where the additional context
> string is used.
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contexts.html[1]
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#Message_Context[2]
> 
> This way, the string "Open" with no context should be used only when this is the verb
> meaning ie "to open", but not for the status as it is in this file here.
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Regards,
> Christian
> 
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> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contexts.html
> [2] https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation#Message_Context
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