[LinuxCNC/linuxcnc PR#532] Change the string “Home” to “home” to distinguish translations.

#1 – jepler 于 2018-11-27

I looked into the issue of translation “context” a little bit. In GNU gettext, there are functions such as ‘pgettext’ which take two arguments, with one of them being a context: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contexts.html — read the link for more info about how this works.

Unfortunately, in Python’s wrapping of gettext, a similar function is not supported.

The implementation of ‘pgettext’ is to concatenate , look it up in the catalog. If it’s there, that string is returned; otherwise, the original is returned.

It is possible to “monkey patch” python’s gettext module to support pgettext, and this is definitely something to consider, but it is also very expedient to adopt a convention like this if it helps improve the quality of the translations with such a small amount of effort.

#2 – jepler 于 2018-11-27

so e.g., for instance if someone contributed an implementation of pgettext, we would establish that there is a ‘keycap name’ context, so you would pgettext(“keycap”, “Home”) instead of just writing _(“Home”)

#3 – jepler 于 2018-11-27

@c-morley any objection to merging this?

#4 – c-morley 于 2018-11-28

I agree long term something better would be nicer. Pncconf’s life span is coming to an end fairly soon.
This change is a good compromise.
Thank you.