Re: Fwd: gettext and contexts

On Friday 21 October 2005 23:01, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > I have committed the patch (fixing the compile error) and then I have
> > made a few change to it:
> > - fix saving
> > - loading multiline contexts
> > - improve code (by using QString::mid and QString:.truncate)
>
> Thanks! That was very quick.
>
> > Also the code still assume that it is the last
> > comment. (If the user has added a comment, the context is corrupted.
>
> Yes, that is a problem. I missed that. Probably using
>    "#. MsgContext: "
> instead of
>    "# MsgContext: "
> would alleviate that? This might discourage the translator from modifying
> it.

No, when you have a block of comment, you naturally add it after.


So for example if you have:

# foo 
# bar
# MsgContext AContext

then the user would have the tendency to write:

# foo 
# bar
# MsgContext AContext
# My comment

And that is currently corrupting the Gettext context.

>
> Bruno

Have a nice day!