Fwd: [libreoffice-l10n] Strings with placeholders

[Caolán McNamara]

On Fri, 2025-01-17 at 14:58 +0100, sophi wrote:
> 
> In case it's not possible to avoid using those placeholders, please
> add comments for translators, preferably in the source string
> description (where the KeyID is located), or otherwise in the source
> file at the location of the string.

FWIW, here's a sample .hrc comment intended for translators:

https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/cui/inc/strings.hrc?r=c007449ec38f49e18ed7d6b8f9ef74c5bd5c015a#320

Which gettext is supposed to extract and make available in the output
.po files that translating works from.

While in the .ui files, in glade there is a "Comments for translators"
option when editing a translatable string which will add the
appropriate "comments" attribute into the .ui

If translators have had to painfully figure out something about a
translation it might be worth considering submitting patches to put
that info back into the source .hrc/.ui as comments.