From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:44:23 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] i18n: Rewrite gettext messages start with dash Message-ID: <500E6E77.5090909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <441f0613d796c35b6865a1258f074d1ea91e605c.1343112786.git.worldhello.net@gmail.com> On 07/24/2012 08:59 AM, Jiang Xin wrote: > Gettext message in a shell script should not start with '-', one > I think using a semicolon instead of a comma after "one" here would be clearer. > workaround is adding '--' between gettext and the message, like: > > gettext -- "--exec option ..." > > But due to a bug in the xgettext extraction, xgettext can not > extract the actual message for this case. Rewriting the message > is a simpler and better solution. > Regards, Stefano