The word „Comment“ is not translated in the dashboard

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I am translating Wordpress into lithuanian using Poedit. And I noticed that there is a conflict with plural form.

In the /wp-includes/theme-compat/comments-popup.php I found a line (56)

	<p><cite><?php comment_type(__('Comment'), __('Trackback'), __('Pingback')); ?> <?php printf(__('by %1$s &#8212; %2$s @ <a href="#comment-%3$s">%4$s</a>'), get_comment_author_link(), get_comment_date(), get_comment_ID(), get_comment_time()); ?></cite></p>

So I decided to change that line into

	<p><cite><?php comment_type(_x('Comment'), __('Trackback'), __('Pingback')); ?> <?php printf(__('by %1$s &#8212; %2$s @ <a href="#comment-%3$s">%4$s</a>'), get_comment_author_link(), get_comment_date(), get_comment_ID(), get_comment_time()); ?></cite></p>

_x('Comment') instead of __('Comment')

Now Poedit finds the plural form of „Comment“ and translates it in the Dashboard.
It works, but I don't know if it is a correct decision.

Don't you use ​.pot files for translation? They provide more accurate results when searching for new strings than updating from source files.

I'm not sure if this fixes the bug here (I don't see a bug here) but we should simply call comment_type() without arguments. That way "Comment" is then translated like so: _x( 'Comment', 'noun' ).

I'm not a big fan of fixing the file in theme-compat because they were meant to be frozen in time.

But this looks like a sensible change to them as it is for I18N purposes only.

Completely agree with your comment.

(In [17074]) Call comment_type() without arguments that way 'Comment' is translated internally with context. fixes #15798.