Terry Hancock wrote:
> /* Comment right before the gettext call, obviously in C */
> printf(_("Apparently ambiguous string to translate"));
>
> This will get captured into the .po file, according to the
> gettext manual and appear as a comment right before
> the msgid (i.e. next to the line number reference).
Not automatically. You need to pass the -c option to xgettext
to make that happen, preferably using a tag:
/* TRANSLATORS: Comment right before the gettext call */
> Is there an equivalent Python gettext idiom? I've tried the
> obvious
>
> # Comment right before the gettext call, now in Python
> print _("Apparently ambiguous string to translate")
>
> But this is ignored by both pygettext and xgettext.
Did you give -c to xgettext? It works for me, for xgettext
0.14.5. -c appears to be unimplemented in pygettext.
Regards,
Martin
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