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NAME
Log::Report::Translator::Context - handle translation contexts
SYNOPSIS
# usually, the context information is in a separate file
textdomain 'my-domain'
, config => $filename;
DESCRIPTION
[Added in Log::Report v1.00] The "contexts" concept in (GNU's version of) "gettext", has a
very restricted purpose: to separate two (accidental) uses of the same message-id, under
different circumstances. The same msgid may translated diffently in one file or the
other. The name "context" is pretending much more power than the gettext libraries are
capable of: it only behaves like a namespace.
For Log::Report, the power of "context" is extended with selecting between alternatives
for the use of a msgid on the same spot. For instance, the gender of the user of the
website determines whether `he' or `she' needs to be used in the translation. In this
example, the gender is set as context keyword in the message:
my ($name, $gender) = ('Jack', 'male');
print __x"{name<gender} found his key", name => $name
, _context => $gender;
METHODS
Constructors
Log::Report::Translator::Context->new(%options)
-Option--Default
rules {}
rules => HASH
Attributes
$obj->rules()
Returns a HASH to the simplified context maps.
Action
$obj->ctxtFor( $message, $lang, [$context] )
Returns a pair of the MSGID stripped from context markup, and the context evaluated
into the msgctxt string. The $message is a Log::Report::Message object. The $context
is the default context for a certain textdomain.
my ($msgid, $msgctxt) = $context->ctxtFor($msg, $lang, $context);
$obj->expand($msgid, $language, %options)
Expand the context settings into all possible combinations which need translations in
the PO file. This may depend on the $language. The $msgid is used in error messages.
$obj->needDecode($source, STRING|ARRAY|HASH|LIST)
Log::Report::Translator::Context->needDecode($source, STRING|ARRAY|HASH|LIST)
Converts the context settings passed with the MSGID, into a HASH which will be matched
to the context providers.
DETAILS
Using context_rules
In Log::Report's extended concept of "contexts", you can select between multiple
translations for the same msgid, when they
• appear with different purpose (like gnu's concept of contexts)
• need alternative translation sets on the same spot
In the standard gettext set-up, some msgid may accidentally collide between two different
uses. For instance, whether you translate the word "Open" in the menu for "Files" to mean
"open a file", and the word "Open" in the status display meaning "the file is open". In
some languages, these translations may differ. Using a msgctxt keyword will cause the
same msgid to appear twice in the PO-file.
But, there is a much broader need for context sensitive translations, which is not in the
provided by standard gettext: environmental information or parameters may influence the
translation more than simply solvable by inserted parameters.
For instance, the gender of the user of the website determines whether `he' or `she' needs
to be used. In this example, the gender is set as context keyword in the message:
$name = 'Jack';
print __x"{name} found her key", name => $name;
You may try to solve this via:
my ($name, $gender) = ('Jack', 'male');
print __x"{name} found {personal} key", name => $name
, personal => ($gender eq 'male' ? 'his' : 'her'); # No!
This does not translate! For one, you would need to translate "his" and "her" to the
language as well. But in some languages, the differences between addressed genders have
more impact on the whole sentence.
So, Log::Report translations add extra syntax:
my ($name, $gender) = ('Jack', 'male');
print __x"{name<gender} found her key", name => $name
, _context => "gender=$gender";
The "gender" marking tells the translation table builder (xgettext-perl) and the
translation handler that there is a context active.
Now, the English PO-file has
# gender alternatives 'male' and 'female'
msgctxt "gender=male"
msgid "{name} found his key"
msgstr "{name} found his key"
msgctxt "gender=female"
msgid "{name} found his key"
msgstr "{name} found her key"
To make this work, both the application and the "xgettext-perl" script must share
information to understand which genders are available. See the section on "Configuration"
below.
Another example:
print __x"greetings{<style}";
# style alternatives 'formal' and 'informal'
msgctxt "style=formal"
msgid "greetings"
msgstr "Dear Sir/Madam,"
msgctxt "style=informal"
msgid "greetings"
msgstr "Hey buddy,"
As can be seen, the '<style' marking may be added inside the '{}' of a filled-in
parameter, or may appear on its own. These markings are removed from the msgid in the PO
file, so that you may freely add them to the strings used in your program without
disturbing existing translations.
Specifying the context per Message
You need to specify the context at each message which is influenced by the context. This
can be a comma separated list of words, an ARRAY, or a HASH:
_context => 'gender=male'
_context => 'gender=male,agegroup=adult,married=yes'
_context => [ 'gender=male', 'agegroup=adult', 'married=yes']
_context => [ qw/gender=male agegroup=adult married=yes/ ]
my @context = (qw/gender=male agegroup=adult married=yes/);
_context => \@context;
Probably the
my %context = (gender => 'male', agegroup => 'adult', married => 'yes');
my %context = qw/gender male agegroup adult married yes/;
_context => \%context;
Standard gettext only allows a single keyword (=string) "Log::Report" permits you to set-
up a context for a whole text-domain, which means that multiple context rules may be
active at any moment.
Specifying the context per Domain
Above examples are to be specified per message. You may also set a default. The top of
your modules set the text-domain (name of the translation table) for all strings found in
those files. In this case, for instance "webpages"
# Log::Report::textdomain()
(textdomain 'webpages')->setContext(%context);
This context is used as defaults, the "_context" attribute used by strings are overruling
these.
The msgctxt
The gnutext implementation of the context is very simple. This is to be expected from a
library written in C. The msgctxt alternatives are matched against the context keywords
of the message. In all or none of the alternatives match, then just a random translation
is chosen.
In the simplest form, the msgctxt field contains a single keyword (not containing a
comma).
msgctxt "gender=male"
But you can do more. Be warned that most (all?) existing tools which smartly edit PO-
files do not understand these constructs: they see the msgctxt as dump string without
meaning.
msgctxt "agegroup=baby,agegroup=grandparent" # baby OR grandparent
msgctxt "gender=male agegroup=adult" # both male AND adult
So, a comma separated list of alternatives. If any matches, then the rule is selected.
Configuration
The tools which handle translations expect the msgctxt to be static. For instance,
contain a filename where the string is used to disambigue accidental collissions of the
use of the same msgid for different purposes.
Now, we have designed far more flexible contexts. We need to generate all possible
msgctxt values while extracting msgids to update the PO-files. Therefore, we need a map-
file.
The context maps are included in a configuration file which is passed to xgettext-perl and
to the program which uses contexts. See Log::Report::Domain::readConfig().
Example of such configuration file: (JSON syntax and Perl syntax)
=== JSON === ==== Perl ===
{ {
"context_rules" : { context_rules => {
"gender" : [ gender => [
"male", 'male',
"female" 'female'
] ]
} }
} }
or
{ {
"context_rules" : { context_rules => {
"gender" : { gender => {
"alternatives" : [ alternatives => [
"male", 'male',
"female", 'female',
"unknown" 'unknown'
] ]
... more config for 'gender' ...
} }
} }
} }
As "alternatives", we list the alternatives as known by the application internals. Each
msgid which contains a "{<gender}" mark will be replicated three times, in each language
table. Each copy will be marked with a different value from "alternatives".
However, languages differ. For instance, in some language we may address the "unknown"
gender as being a male person. In other languages, the translation can express this
"unknown" personality. To get this to work, you can use the "msgctxt" construct.
The default "msgctxt", as used in the previous example, is simply mapping the alternatives
directly on msgctxt values which are the same:
{ { context_rules =>
"context_rules" : { { gender =>
"gender" : { { default => { qw/
"default" : { female female
"female" : "female", male male
"male" : "male" unknown male / }
"unknown" : "male", , 'nl,de' => { qw/
}, unknown x / }
"nl,de" : {
"unknown" : "x"
} }
... more configuration ...
}
... more context rules ...
} }
} }
By default, there will only be two msgid copies in a language file, because at run-time
the "unknown" is mapped on "male". An exception for the Dutch (nl*) and German (de*)
tables, which apparently support the third gender.
If you are not interested for a certain tag, then put it on 'IGNORE' as default or for
your language.
"default" : "IGNORE", default => 'IGNORE'
"nl": "IGNORE" nl => 'IGNORE'
SEE ALSO
This module is part of Log-Report-Lexicon distribution version 1.03, built on June 04,
2014. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/log-report/
LICENSE
Copyrights 2007-2014 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html