From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: A system for localizing documentation strings Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:53:00 +0200 Message-ID: References: <795F38F4-7253-47DC-97DD-53BED4F0AB97@mx6.tiki.ne.jp> <871weuk228.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185530353 24705 80.91.229.12 (27 Jul 2007 09:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:59:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , fusion@mx6.tiki.ne.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 27 11:59:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IEMbA-0001rZ-K1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:59:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEMbA-0004SS-19 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:59:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEMVQ-0002oI-8e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:53:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IEMVN-0002k2-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:53:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IEMVM-0002jv-Op for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:53:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IEMVL-00041O-KH; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1719E21571; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:53:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Am I in GRADUATE SCHOOL yet? In-Reply-To: <871weuk228.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Fri\, 27 Jul 2007 11\:33\:51 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75648 Archived-At: "Stephen J. Turnbull" writes: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I didn't know gettext supported message strings in comments. Does > > it? > > gettext() itself obviously doesn't, since comments aren't executable. > Extraction tools like xgettext should, they aren't supposed to parse > the text beyond the _() macro. It is not required to use xgettext for message extraction, you can just as easily roll your own. It should be trivial to extend make-docfile to emit POT files as well. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."