Dear Debian i18n experts, I am currently trying to i14e[0] a bit of software that I'm writing on Debian GNU/Linux, and have been reading up on gettext and its associated applications and libraries.
I have figured out that I need use contexts to distinguish between some short strings in my application. To this end, I've created a sample .pot file and translated .po files with the requisite msgid, msgstr and msgctxt lines. However, in order to use the strings at runtime, I need to be able to call [d[c]]pgettext(), as described in the gettext manual[1]. Despite having all the gettext-related packages that I can find installed on my system, these functions do not appear to be declared anywhere.[2] Is there a package I should have installed? I already have libc6-dev 2.7-9 (owner of libintl.h) and gettext 0.17-2 installed. To investigate further, I downloaded the GNU sources for gettext 0.17 and had a look at them. According to their header file, pgettext() just calls gettext(), passing its msgctxt argument as gettext()'s msgid. As a test, I tried calling gettext() directly with a context id as a message id on the Debian library. This did not work. And neither can I get a translation for a message that has a context even if it is the only message with a particular msgid. So, I need to use gettext contexts, but I can't figure out how to do this on my Debian system. If a message has a context, it simply appears to be unavailable. (Messages without contexts load fine, so I know that I'm putting the .mo files in the right place, setting the locale properly and binding to the correct domain, etc...) Am I missing something? Or is this a bug in libc6/gettext? I tried googling[3] for more info but nothing particularly useful turned up. Thanks, Adam Spragg. [0] Internationalise [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Contexts [2] find /usr/include/ -name \*.h | xargs grep pgettext [3] http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pgettext+site%3Alists.debian.org -- Adam Spragg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer Octal Telecom http://www.octaltelecom.co.uk/ It reverses the logical flow of conversation! > Why? > > No. > > > Should I top post? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22top+posting%22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
