Re: gettext

[Daiki Ueno <ueno gnu org>]

philip chimento gmail com writes:

> After trying it out, it's very unfortunate that msgfmt doesn't have an
> argument allowing you to specify a custom ITS rule; it only detects
> ones that have been installed into the Gettext data directories.

The xgettext's --its option was originally added for testing purpose (to
check if a given ITS file works as expected).  The suggested way to
specify custom ITS rules is to install those files in
/usr/share/gettext, because of ...

> Also, if you use xgettext's --its option to specify a custom ITS rule,
> then it seems not to pick up translatable strings from C sources
> anymore; but without it, it won't pick them up from the XML
> files. I'll check again tomorrow and otherwise report this as a bug.

... this.  It is the same limitation that -L, -k, --flags options are
effective for all input files.  There was a discussion to support
per-file options, but it is not implemented yet:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.gettext.bugs/863

Anyway, thanks for writing up the document!

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno