gettext, how to handle homonyms?

Question

Using gettext

Single value

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

Plurals

printf(ngett         


        

Answer 1

For the ones using Poedit like me you need to following. First create the function. I'm using one named _x like the one WordPress use:

if (!function_exists('_x')) {

function _x($string, $context)
{
  $contextString = "{$context}\004{$string}";
  $translation = _($contextString);
  if ($translation == $contextString)  
     return $string;
  return $translation;
}
}

Then on poedit you need to enter the following on Sources Keywords tab:

_x:1,2c
_

So when you need to use context translation you use _x function. Eg:

I took all the info from these links:

• Gettext to work with context (pgettext)
• http://www.cssigniter.com/ignite/wordpress-poedit-translation-secrets/