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Re: ASCII and Unicode Quotation Marks
Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx wrote on 21.12.99 in <UTC199912211418.PAA03276.aeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> The new construction is nicer in some respects, but worse
> in other respects. For example, it uses the English string
> as a key, and I twice encountered the situation where the
> proper translation did depend on the context.
> Message catalogs have no problems, but gettext cannot easily
> handle this.
In cases such as these, _if_ you're using an English .po, you can easily
add a tag to the in-program message to disambiguate. It should not be a
problem to word it in a way that it still works as fallback.
MfG Kai
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