gettext, how to handle homonyms?

Question

Using gettext

Single value

echo gettext( \"Hello, world!\\n\" );

Plurals

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Answer 1

What you are looking for is contexts for gettext which solves ambiguities like your example. You can find information about in the documentation. Still the needed method pgettext is not implemented in PHP so you might use the helper method stated in a user comment in the php documentation.

if (!function_exists('pgettext')) {

  function pgettext($context, $msgid)
  {
     $contextString = "{$context}\004{$msgid}";
     $translation = dcgettext('messages', contextString,LC_MESSAGES);
     if ($translation == $contextString)  return $msgid;
     else  return $translation;
  }

}

In your case it would be

echo pgettext('mail', 'Letter');
echo pgettext('character', 'Letter');