Hello Michael, Regarding http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-09/msg00129.html :
How does the internationalization of the usage strings work? Usually generated files are not subject to xgettext scanning [1], only the source files are. (Otherwise when a translator wants to see some context, the tools show him some people of generated C code, beurk.) The source file looks like this: +/* genparse file starts here +#include <config.h> +#include <sys/types.h> +#include "system.h" + +c / bytes flag "print the byte counts" +m / chars flag "print the character counts" +l / lines flag "print the newline counts__NEW_PRINT__" +NONE / files0-from=F string "read input from the files specified by" + " NUL-terminated names in file F" +L / max-line-length flag "print the length of the longest line" +w / words flag "print the word counts__NEW_PRINT__" +#gp_include help_version.gp + +#usage_begin +Usage: __PROGRAM_NAME__ [OPTION]... [FILE]... + or: __PROGRAM_NAME__ [OPTION]... --files0-from=F__NEW_PRINT__ +Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE, and a total line if +more than one FILE is specified. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, +read standard input. +__GLOSSARY_GNU__(25) +__COMMAND__(emit_bug_reporting_address ()) +#usage_end +genparse file ends here */ This is not the usual C syntax for strings. So, what I'm missing is: - A patch to GNU xgettext so that it will support this syntax (extracting strings from both the options and the usage part). - A description of the syntax and an example how to place translator comments, i.e. comments that the maintainer writes for the translators (e.g. [2]). Since /* ... */ is already taken, I assume you will need to introduce another kind of comment syntax for this? Bruno [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/po_002fPOTFILES_002ein.html [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Names.html _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
