With this change, xgettext could report common syntactic problems
in strings to be extracted. Current built-in checks are
ellipsis-unicode, space-ellipsis, and quote-unicode. Those checks
can be enabled with --check option of xgettext and disabled with
special "xgettext:" comment in source files.
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #44098 (project gettext):
To facilitate reviewing, I've posted the 2nd patch to the mailing-list (we
should probably migrate to debbugs this year).
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2015-02/msg1.html
Changes from v1 are:
- recognize "xgettext: no-*-check
