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How do you guys deal with "context" around translations? Lots of shorter strings in web application require some hand-holding for translators to let them know where the phrase will be used, as the original English text might translate to vastly different things depending on surrounding functionality/text.

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That is a great point. We have some ideas on how to tackle that problem (like integrating with pontoon, from Mozilla, for example), but right now there would be some strings where that would be a problem. Surprisingly that has proven less of an issue than we had feared originally. In any case, it is a real problem for localization.

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