[BUG] Unable to localize two words with different meaning

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hello,

Assume, we want to localize two words, same in English but different in another language.
We are unable to do so because when using

NSLOCTEXT("namespace","TEXT_HELLO", "Hello!");
NSLOCTEXT("namespace","TEXT_WELCOME", "Hello!");

UE4 GatherText will assign our two Keys to one world.
Localization system is unable to handle situation where we have two different translations for TEXT_HELLO and TEXT_WELCOME in another language. It returns first record found in .archive file only.

2

Hi ksvg07,

You’ll need to put the words into different namespaces. This is currently the intended way of dealing with homographs.

NSLOCTEXT("namespace01","TEXT_HELLO", "Hello!");
NSLOCTEXT("namespace02","TEXT_WELCOME", "Hello!");

Identical text within the same namespace share translations. This is done to reduce translation costs and runtime memory.

3

So, what is the purpose of keys if they are not identyfing translation uniquely ?

4

The keys help us maintain a history for a “instance of text”. For example:

NSLOCTEXT(“namespace01”,“TEXT_HELLO”, “Hello!”);

was ever changed to…

NSLOCTEXT(“namespace01”,“TEXT_HELLO”, “Hello”);

then because the key remained stable we can show the translators that the only change was that the ! was removed and that their previous translation just needs a small modification.

This is a boon to translators, particularly with long pieces of text, which is magnified as iteration on existing text begins and reduces translation costs as a “review” is a lot cheaper than doing the whole translation again from scratch.