Re: gettext markup of library sources

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 10:08:04AM -0500, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> See libstdc++-v3/po for the current catalog. 
> 
> I once made notes on how to deal with this (and maybe the makefile rules
> still work).

There are rules for building the po/mo files, and they work.  There's nothing
for extracting the string literals.  (I wish there was a way to merge new
extractions into an existing .pot, rather than overwriting it.)  I'm trying
to script something now.


> >are traditional.  We can't actually use _N like I've noted below; it's in
> >the BADNAMES list for Solaris.
> 
> I'm in favor of not inventing a new syntax for this. If you can't use
> _N, maybe __N? 

That would work.


> >Note that, as shown below, I'm /not/ proposing we actually use gettext()
> >yet.  That will require some configury magic, and is probably best left
> >for post-3.3.
> 
> Hmm: gettext is being used, now. See the std::messages facet. Are you
> talking about the location issue at install time?

I was having mental problems with textdomain().  Evidently I was on crack
when I wrote that.  Let me rephrase:  I'm proposing that "_" not actually
do anything yet.


> >+// XXX These are only placeholders.  They let people mark up the library
> >+// sources without breaking things, and will be probably be somewhere else
> >+// once localization of the library itself is functioning.
> >+#define _(__msgid)               (__msgid)
> >+#define _N(__msgid)              (__msgid)
> >+#define gettext_noop(__msgid)    (__msgid)
> 
> Don't need XXX here, I don't think.

They're really useful in a syntax-highlighting editor.  And they signal to
users of snapshots that it really is temporary code.


I'll do up a real patch and an example libstdc++.pot file.


Phil

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