Hi,
In various languages, there are multiple forms/agreements for a pronoun/adjective. In French, for instance masculine and feminine forms exist; in other languages (like German IIRC) there's even a neutral form (other languages may also be more complicated)
while agreements in English are limited, e.g. there's only one form for masculine/feminine/plural adjectives.
This makes translating short English words problematic.
In my case, I've a problem with the following PO entry
#: comctl32.rc:44 crypt32.rc:198 progman.rc:78 winecfg.rc:76 msgid "None"
According to context, it can be translated (in French) as either "Aucun" or "Aucune" (agreements on the same word). Admitedly, it could be translated with "Aucun(e)" but that seems more like a workaround and feels a bit weird (user shouldn't see partially incorrect/odd translations because of technical issues)
OTOH, creating a distinct msgcontext for every agreement in every supported language may be overkill, although the number of affected msgids is limited.
What's your opinion on how to handle that, folks?
Frédéric Delanoy
NB: This obviously posed no problem before the rc->po migration, since it was duplicated in different rc files