Status of gettext translators hints, e.g. Q_() macro?

[Christian Stimming <stimming tuhh de>]

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Hi there,

Some months ago there was this discussion on how to make gettext more helpful 
to translators, e.g. 

> msgid "|noun|file"
> msgid "|verb|file"

See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2001-April/msg00058.html and 
thread.

Has anything happened on this topic since? I found some earlier submitted 
patches that serve exactly that purpose, namely 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devel-list/2000-December/msg00047.html 
by Zbigniew Chyla. It seems like that code didn't make it into CVS anywhere 
is well -- is that correct?

I wanted to use the mentioned feature for the translation of GnuCash. It 
didn't sound too difficult: the Q_() macro itself could easily be provided by 
our own backend structure. However, everytime we have a message as e.g. menu 
item, we put this message in the N_() macro, which means that it isn't passed 
through gettext until display time (I think). More importantly, it means that 
this gettext call is *not* inside our GnuCash source code anymore! 
Essentially it's impossible for us to code the Q_() feature by ourselves 
:-))))

Is there a consensus on how to do this? I.e., did you agree on a message 
syntax? If yes, what's missing? And where should the code go? And who is 
going to commit it into CVS?

Christian Stimming
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