note 89975 added to book.gettext

And what about pgettext and npgettext? They are there in the gettext documentation, but there aren't in PHP. They're very useful if you have the same messages for translation, but in different contexts, so they should be translated separately and probably differently. Fortunately, there is a simple work-around, which may help: From the gettext.h header one can find out that pgettext() is only a macro calling dcgettext() internally with properly mangled parameters - msgctxt and msgid are glued together with use of ASCII char 4 [EOT, End Of Text]. The same way they're written in .mo files, so it's possible to refer them this way. Here's my "emulated" pgettext() function: <?php if (!function_exists('pgettext')) { function pgettext($context, $msgid) { $contextString = "{$context}\004{$msgid}"; $translation = dcgettext('messages', contextString,LC_MESSAGES); if ($translation == $contextString) return $msgid; else return $translation; } } ?> By default, xgettext doesn't support pgettext function for PHP source files. But there is a parameter which can work-around it. Here's how I call xgettext: xgettext --force-po --keyword="pgettext:1c,2" -c -o messages.po sourceFile.php In sourceFile.php I use the following test code: pgettext('menu', 'Open'); //Substitute "Otwórz" pgettext('forum', 'Open'); //Substitute "Otwarty", different context Generated .po file fragment: msgctxt "menu" msgid "Open" msgstr "Otwórz" msgctxt "forum" msgctxt "Open" msgstr "Otwarty" I've tested it out and everything works fine :-) If anyone have some further suggestions or fixes, please write ;-) ---- Server IP: 82.177.164.100 Probable Submitter: 83.9.182.121 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.gettext.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/89975 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/89975 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/89975 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php