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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    i18n and gettext
From:       Michael Rex <me () rexi ! org>
Date:       2006-07-20 20:09:03
Message-ID: 200607202209.03775 () fuckup ! rexi ! org
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Hi,

I recently pretty much rewrote an app I wrote for KDE and I changed quite a 
lot of things. Most important for my question is, I also changed quite a few 
translatable strings (now I'm also using the i18n method with comments and 
the plural-handling one). And I ran into some problems when trying to extract 
them for translation. The tutorial on i18n mentions xgettext and how to 
extract translatable strings, but it fails to mention that KDE SVN uses a 
patched version of xgettext (I think this should really be mentioned in the 
i18n HOWTO, not only in the scripty HOWTO, as it gave my quite a headache to 
find out why the standard gettext on my system failed to handle KDE's 
i18n-functions correctly).

Now I found, patched & compiled gettext 0.10.35, but I'm still not sure how to 
get it to extract all of the strings marked as translatable and treat them 
the right way. I'm hoping someone can point me to the right direction. I need 
to extract translatable strings from my sources, including those with 
comments and those that handle plural forms of messages.

Bye,
Michael

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