Untranslatable strings in twenty eleven (3.4)

[thomask]

several files in twenty eleven contains

<?php comments_popup_link( '<span class="leave-reply">' . __( 'Leave a reply', 'twentyeleven' ) . '</span>', __( '<b>1</b> Reply', 'twentyeleven' ), __( '<b>%</b> Replies', 'twentyeleven' ) ); ?>

This is untranslatable for that 90 % #13651

But there is allready a sollution on comments.php (row 33):

 printf( _n( 'One thought on &ldquo;%2$s&rdquo;', '%1$s thoughts on &ldquo;%2$s&rdquo;', get_comments_number(), 'twentyeleven' ), number_format_i18n( get_comments_number() ), '<span>' . get_the_title() . '</span>' );

Which uses multiple plurals format

And there is also problem with search.php, which uses 3 times

_e( 'Search', 'twentyeleven' );

but in three diferent context - label, placeholder and button, so translating it once will change it on 3 places with 3 slightly different meanings - english is probably the ongly language, where those three are same (and even in english i think, that "search" as placeholder for search form is not the best option.

[obenland]

The change would require new translations for all languages on update. Since this issue hasn't come up earlier, it seems to me that the cost/benefit ratio is pretty high...

[thomask]

this is for new theme bundled with new WP version, where there will be anyway hundrets of new strings to translate anyway

[lancewillett]

I agree that the costs are greater than the benefits. Suggest closing as wontfix.

[obenland]

Let's keep the context issue in mind for Twenty Thirteen, then.

Good point @thomask!