On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:16 AM, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > Hi, > >> given these 2 files: >> >> ----8<--- test1.pot ---------- >> #, fuzzy >> msgid "foo" >> msgstr "foo" >> ------------------------->8--- >> >> ----8<--- test2.pot ---------- >> msgid "foo" >> msgstr "" >> ------------------------->8--- >> >> msgcat does not ignore empty translation from test2: >> >> $ msgcat test1.pot test2.pot >> #, fuzzy >> msgid "foo" >> msgstr "" >> "#-#-#-#-# test1.pot #-#-#-#-#\n" >> "foo\n" >> "#-#-#-#-# test2.pot #-#-#-#-#\n" >> >> while it correctly ignore it if we remove the fuzzy comment from test1: >> >> $ sed -i 's/#, fuzzy//' test1.pot && msgcat test1.pot test2.pot >> msgid "foo" >> msgstr "foo" >> >> is this a feature or a bug? > > I see it as a feature. msgcat has a multitude of use-cases. For the use-case > of > concatenating POT files (which have 'msgstr ""' for *all* messages), it would > be useless if msgcat would throw away messages with 'msgstr ""'.
I get this very specific use case - and i agree with you - but it applies if all translations for the same msgid are empty. In my case, one translation is not empty and the other one is. What I don't understand is the difference between my 2 tests: - if neither of the translations are fuzzy, and only one is not empty, msgcat keeps only the not empty one => in this case, it _ignores the empty one_ - if the not empty translation is fuzzy, msgcat merges the not empty translation with the empty translation => in this case, it _does not ignore the empty one_ > You can achieve what you want by preprocessing test2.pot (and maybe test1.pot > as well?) with "msgattrib --translated". what I would like to achieve is a resulting file containing all msgid from test1.po and test2.po, with following translations - empty translation if both file1 and file2 have empty translation - translation from file1 if file 2 has empty translation - translation from file1 if file 2 has no corresponding msgid - translation from file2 if file 1 has empty translation - translation from file2 if file 1 has no corresponding msgid - merged translations if both file1 and file2 have non empty translation additionnaly, it should also respect these rules: - comments from both files are merged (wether this string is translated or not in both files) - the translation is marked as fuzzy only if - several translations were merged - both strings were fuzzy It seems to me that it cannot be easily achieved with only msgattrib and msgcat. > With msgattrib and msgcat together, you have great flexibility, depending on > what you want to achieve. > > Bruno > Matthieu
