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To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> 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 p=
roduce
>     sexps (trees).
>
> The latter doesn=E2=80=99t seem reasonable to me.  :-)

I=E2=80=99m not sure I understand the problem well enough, but there seems =
to be
a middle way: using itstool with XML.  When you squint really hard XML
is close to S-exprs.

--
Ricardo