On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 12:46:12PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > They all appear to want is as a noun. So maybe this is just > > mis-translated for Spanish. It does feel like an accident in the making, > > though. > > Probably we need pgettext(). > > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Contexts.html Yeah, that make sense. I'm not sure how it interacts with N_(), though. I.e., I'd expect the "context" to ride along with the original string, but I guess it is really in the caller who's translating it. So the real spot becomes: printf(_("my type is %s"), pgettext("object-type", type_name(type))); It's a little unfortunate that every caller has to do it rather than putting it near the source string. But I guess a type_name_human() would solve that, too. ;) -Peff
