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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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Hi,

"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> skribis:

> 3) We could write our own PO file writer and MO file reader and use it
> with either Christopher=E2=80=99s lego translation and sirgazil=E2=80=99s=
 format
> strings to use whatever format we want for developers and translators.

Note that =E2=80=9Clego translation=E2=80=9D is what we should _not_ do bec=
ause it gives
translators fragments of sentences, which does not allow them to
correctly translate text.

As long as we use xgettext, we have to stick to a format-string-like
approach like what sirgazil proposes.

Writing a custom xgettext kind of tool wouldn=E2=80=99t help much because
gettext is fundamentally text oriented: you give it a string and it
returns a string.

So I think the alternative is:

  =E2=80=A2 use gettext, and in that case stick to a format-string-like
    mechanism, or:

  =E2=80=A2 use a completely new tool that would be able to consume and pro=
duce
    sexps (trees).

The latter doesn=E2=80=99t seem reasonable to me.  :-)

BTW, there might also be ideas to borrow from GNUN:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/gnun/

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.