From kde-i18n-doc  Tue May 09 11:53:03 2006
From: Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic () gmx ! net>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:53:03 +0000
To: kde-i18n-doc
Subject: Re: The problem of "May"
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> [: Tuomas Nurmi :]
> Does it follow from this that the abbreviations of the months cannot be=20
> defined in the same .po -file as the months, or is the problem even more
> profound, saying that homonymic msgids cannot exist in the same
> application?

Indeed, homonymic msgids cannot exist by themselves, as they form the=20
search key for the catalog lookup at runtime. That is why we have=20
contexts, which make part of the search key, and thus can be used to=20
disambiguate otherwise same msgids:

msgid "May"
msgstr "maj"

msgid ""
"_: Month name abbreviation\n"
"May"
msgstr "maj"

or, starting from KDE 4:

msgid "May"
msgstr "maj"

msgctxt "Month name abbreviation"
msgid "May"
msgstr "maj"

These context have to be added in the source code itself, by the=20
programmer. Translators should point programmers to do so when needed,=20
hence the advice to file a bug report.

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