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Re:What they don’t tell you when you translate your app by seanalltogether on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:31AM (#28470781)
Obj-C and Swift allow comments to go along with translation strings, so you would add

    let buttonStr = NSLocalizedString("Open ticket", comment: "For user to open a ticket")
And the comment would make its way into the eventual xliff file sent to translators
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Re:What they don’t tell you when you translate your app by jraph on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:51AM (#28471022)
This looks like the right approach: giving context to the translation strings.

Many translation tools give the locations in the code where a string is used. It's a first step, though translators are not always able to read code.

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