Please correct me if I misunderstood this: To me the language system just translates one string of source language into another string of target language, is that right? At least that is suggested by the data structure of language.php.
If that is the case, then there is a fundamental flaw in it: The system cannot (by design) take into account that no function f exists that translations a string of source language into target language.
Because language has a context, and different contexts can radically change to correct translation!
One issue I have only seen now that I have shopping cart activated on one of my Tiki Wikis. There is a button "checkout" to log you off the wiki.
And there is a button "checkout" in the shopping cart, but this will NOT log off the wiki, but close an order, meaning the user requests payment.
The first button "Checkout" is at the moment correctly translated with default values into "Abmelden" in German.
But the second buttons "Checkout" on the shop makes no sense being called "Abmelden" as well, because the user pressing this button does not want to log off, he/she wants to pay, so the only correct translation would be "Bezahlen" (pay).
I believe this contextual change of meaning cannot be dealt with by the current language system, it cannot even handle exceptions?
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