Re: [PATCH 2/2] i18n: Add extra -- to seperate gettext and message

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 15, 2012, 17:41 UTC
Message-ID: <20120615174149.GG10752@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <CANYiYbGnoZDMkOq-goaPO98L4Ar1HzMVS-JjjBz7rNHVgv4ywQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jiang Xin wrote:

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> I saw Ævar's bug report on xgettext to the GNU gettext list:
>
>  * http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/GETTEXT-BUG-xgettext-1-can-t-extract-quot-gettext-foo-quot-td7560744.html
>
> May be post to a more official mailing list, such as bug-gnu-utils at
> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnu-utils will get some response,

I think bug-gettext is the right place: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2012-06/msg00003.html

> but I doubt there won't be a clear resolution in xgettext.

The double negative is leaving me confused. :) Are you saying you doubt that anyone will come up with a patch to fix xgettext, or that you doubt that the result will be satisfactory?

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> Write a wrapper for gettext  and extract messages using
> 'xgettext --keyword=<gettext-wrapper>' is a reasonable solution.

For what it's worth that does seem to me like the most sensible workaround in the short term. :/

	gittext () {	# or sane_gettext or literal_gettext or something
		gettext -- "$1"
	}

	gittextln () {
		gettext -- "$1"
		echo
	}

Thanks, Jonathan