Translating a same message used in different contexts

[Alexandre Julliard]

Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> writes:

> Ah, sorry. I don't know about Vista and greater. So why does Wine do it 
> the Vista way?
>
> This has changed so much that it seems like we should be able to pick 
> the scheme we prefer without breaking applications (or they would be 
> broken on Windows already). Given that I'd personnaly pick the XP way 
> (case 2).

Using non-localized names for directories is probably better, in case
the underlying filesystem doesn't support all character sets properly.

> So otherwise for context issues I believe the outcome of the WineConf 
> discussion was that we'd insert a prefix in the two strings to 
> translate, e.g. 'CTX-IDS_DESKTOP:Desktop' and 
> 'CTX-IDS_DESKTOPDIRECTORY:Desktop', and have wrc remove it when 
> producing the localized resource files (i.e. detect that the string to 
> translate starts with 'CTX-' and remove everything until the colon). 
> That means the English resource must be 'translated' too.

The prefix is actually #msgctxt#, but yes that's how it works, it's
already used in a couple of places.

Of course, if the directory is really supposed to be named Desktop in
all languages then we might as well remove it from the .rc file.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org