Re: Translating "yes" and "no" as answers to specific questions

[Thomas Thurman <tthurman gnome org>]

Ysgrifennodd F Wolff:
> I would really want to encourage you to keep things as simple as
> possible. If you want a different translation for "yes" depending on
> context, this is what msgctxt is meant for. Use msgctxt to specify the
> unique context ("have"?), and provide a comment to explain to
> translators what the issue is.

I think you are missing my point.  I am not approaching this problem as 
a programmer; rather, I am considering it from the point of view of a 
translator.  There are languages in which every yes/no question might 
reasonably have a different verbal representation of assent or dissent.  
I can't go through every gtk application in the world and ask their 
programmers to add representations of the verb into msgctxt.  Even if I 
could, there still wouldn't be any way for the translators to specify 
what the translation of "yes" and "no" should be for that particular 
question.

The reason I gave the examples I did was that to all application 
programmers, and to most translators, they won't look any different from 
what we have now.

peace

T

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