Thanks for the reply Daiki:
I had a similar test, but I used yours just to validate; however, my output
is not as expected using v0.18.3.2 from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git (Ubuntu 13.10)
Is there another release I should be using to get the proper output as
yours?
$ cat test.js
/* comment 1 */
gettext('test string 1');
// comment 2
gettext('test string 2');⏎
$ xgettext --add-comments --omit-header --no-location -o - test.js
#. comment 1 */
msgid "test string 1"
msgstr ""
msgid "test string 2"
msgstr ""
$ xgettext --version
xgettext (GNU gettext-tools) 0.18.3
Copyright (C) 1995-1998, 2000-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
$ gettext --version
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.18.3
Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Ulrich Drepper.
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Daiki Ueno <[email protected]> wrote:
> James D Holby <[email protected]> writes:
>
> >> Could you elaborate what you mean with "developer comments"?
> >
> > In the PO files they can contain:
> >
> > #. Programmer comment
> >
> > The manual mentions we can add keywords to extract comments to be
> extracted
> > into the PO file so that the developer can give context to the
> translator.
> >
> > However, it doesn't seem that these are currently extracted or
> recognized in
> > 0.8.13 with JavaScript and adding the -c/--add-comments options.
>
> It's strange. With this simple test.js:
>
> /* comment 1 */
> gettext('test string 1');
>
> // comment 2
> gettext('test string 2');
>
> I get the following PO:
>
> #. comment 1
> msgid "test string 1"
> msgstr ""
>
> #. comment 2
> msgid "test string 2"
> msgstr ""
>
> by calling xgettext as follows:
>
> xgettext --add-comments --omit-header --no-location -o - test.js
>
> gettext-tools/tests/xgettext-javascript-1 actually contains a similar
> test, though it uses a different option: --add-comments=TRANSLATORS:
>
> Regards,
> --
> Daiki Ueno
>
