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December 2007 I wrote about GNOME adopting gettext’s msgctxt feature (and so did Andre Klapper). 8 months latter, this still is considered a proposed GNOME Goal. I really hope we can get this official, and as a translator I would certainly enjoy translating (and reviewing) message catalogs without that awful pipe.
By the way, if GNOME 2.30 = GNOME 3.0, then GNOME 2.26 = GNOME (3.0 - 0.4)? 
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Recently I received a series of invitations to join UNYK, an interesting relationship site. Its focus is an automatically updated contact list: when your contacts update their details, your contact list is automatically updated, and vice-versa. Given the nature of the information, I was worried about privacy/confidentiality and data openness, so I did a little web search.
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Recently the Brazilian GNOME translation team, together with other Brazilian free software translation teams, improved severeal items in our terminology (which we call Standard Vocabulary), probably motivated by our meeting at the 9th FISL and the GNOME terminology revamp. When we started preparing ourselves to translate GNOME 2.24, I wanted to start by fixing the translations to match current terminology. This post brings the tricks I had to learn to make this happen.
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