[wp-polyglots] Strings and _c() function

[Abel Cheung]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Stefano Aglietti <steagl4ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Yes you right these stings are "commented" this way cause they are
>  really cluttered strings and to understand what they do often required
>  to go into the code and not all translators are so used about PHP,
>  andd sometimes the string results is composed from stuff distributed
>  in lot of lines of code.

Nah, it's more like a abuse when used in current way. The original meaning
behind such thing can be explained in this simple string:

"Next"

Does this mean next page, next post, next user, or next whatever? They
may require different translation under different context. The vertical bar is
used for clarifying such ambiguity, but later on it is deteriorated as
comment replacement, though such facility is already available in po files.
Anyway, things doesn't break, so it doesn't even worth complaining..

Abel

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