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It's about time I compiled this...
Some in-game messages need a greater degree of flexibilization to allow for more natural translations.
Other translators may (will) need different changes, but these are mine (pt_BR):

1. Gettext has grouped together some messages that are the same in English but will have different translations, namely:
"Equip" in modes/menu/menu.cpp:521, where it's a noun, and at line 636, where it's a verb.
"Arm" in modes/menu/menu.cpp:853 and menu_views.cpp:204, where it's an abbreviation for Armor
"All" in modes/menu/menu_views.cpp:199 and again at line 703; I have no words that can fit both uses of All.
This applies, but I don't know how to apply that in the code, so I'll leave it to you guys for now.

2. This part (map_treasure.cpp:455) should really be a single sentence with format strings, since different languages will have a different word ordering.


3. Some messages require usage of plural forms: "count", "unique", "characters" in both shop_confirm.cpp and shop_leave.cpp

This is about it, but I'll have to ask our other translators what they might need.

Thanks for this It's hard to know what capability is missing if our translators don't say anything. I'll take a look at implementing this stuff when I find some time...

Keep the suggestions flowing.

Hi there!

I've finally read the whole gettext manual and took the time to (mostly) understand it
I don't want to step on anyone's toes, so feel free to yell at me if I'm dealing with things too obvious, or already taken up by someone else.

As Marcavis ingeniously said, we'll need to to make use of context by using the pgettext(context, stringToTranslate) function. Another new UTranslate-like function adding context as parameter is then needed, I guess.
Can I propose this as contexts for Marcavis examples?


As for 2, I'd propose this (or alike):

So we can always make use of %s numbering if the order is changing as it could be for the German translation for example.


Indeed, the ngettext function should be used those cases.

I'll add that I remember seeing one or two sentences too similar in the english version of the story, making the dialogues in french a bit weird in some cases. I'll try to catch them for my next po update.

Best regards.

Your proposals sound good, Bertram. It might take a bit of time before we can implement them, but it sounds like your suggestions would work.