While discussing the shortcomings of gettext and alternative i18n/l10n systems/method for software in #drupal-denmark, we could agree on one thing: Having strings be more specific would help a great deal towards avoiding translating two strings that are the same in English, but turn up rather awkwardly in some situations with the target language (one example is Online/Offline, which is used both for users and for the entire site - in Danish, the site online/offline is translated to activated/deactivated... and using the same about users is amusing at best :)).

So what we want is something like Site Maintenance's Online/Offline become "Site Online/Offline", stuff using "Options" should use "Module Options" (or something like that), and in general make the strings more specific.

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mikl’s picture

mikl
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I'll second that.

The more plain and generic the original string is, the harder it is to translate it properly...

Freso’s picture

Freso commented
Title: More specific user interface text (for the translators' sake!) » DROP Task: More specific user interface text (for the translators' sake!)

Added this as a DROP task. :)

yoroy’s picture

yoroy commented
Status: Active » Fixed

First part of the original post is more a guideline for ui text than a specific solvable issue.
For maintenance mode, currently the option is a checkbox labeled "Put site into maintenance mode ", which is quite specific.

Continued work here: #666170: Make texts on maintenance mode shorter and clearer

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.