Follow-up Comment #2, bug #50920 (project gettext): You might be misunderstanding my motivation for filing this bug report. Believe me I know the problems of format strings getting mangled by translators no matter the programming language, so that's not what the bug report was about
However, Javascript's interpolated strings are not supported in xgettext at all, even if you use only simple variable names or no interpolation at all: echo '_(`hello`)' | xgettext - --language=javascript -o - I think xgettext should recognize _(`hello`) as a string marked for translation, even if it is bad practice to use complicated interpolation expressions in it. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50920> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/