[wp-hackers] question about non standard textdomain in WordPress and wasted translation space

[Peter Westwood]

On 29 Jun 2009, at 22:04, Heiko Rabe wrote:
>
> Why did it use a different text domain than WordPress Core itself ?

So as to make translation optional without filling up the main file  
and making it difficult to tell if you had translated all the strings.

>
> Even if this is would be contained in main WordPress *.mo file, it  
> doesn't get translated because this text domain doesn't exists.
> Furthermore the remark text states, that it is nowhere included, so  
> why we are able to tranlate such things if they never been accessed  
> somewhere but occupy 486 entries at *.mo generation/translation ?

The strings are used elsewhere as they come from php function calls  
but listed there so the translation tool can pick them up.

For more info read the wp-polyglots mailing list archives.

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-polyglots/2009-May/003430.html

This is probably a more appropriate topic for that list.

westi
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