On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:52 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:08 AM Matthias Clasen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 12:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > I've done some work on this; I rewrote the wiki page titled "Localize >> using >> > Gettext and Intltool" [1] so that it doesn't mention intltool anymore. >> Since >> > it's a pretty drastic revision, I put it in a paste [2], maybe someone >> wants >> > to check if I haven't been too overzealous in deleting? >> > >> > Furthermore, here's the migration guide [3]. Caveats are that I did this >> > mostly by looking back at some commits that I made a few months ago, and >> > I've never done it for AppData files, so it could probably use some >> > independent verification. >> >> I've briefly looked over the migration guide. Some comments/corrections: >> >> - Current gettext _does_ support its files, and some gnome projects >> install their own now: glib installs gschema.its, and gtk+ installs >> gtkbuilder.its, etc. The its support may be a 0.19.7 addition. >> >> - There is some unclear information about what file formats require >> merging translations back, and which don't: gschema and gtkbuilder >> files reference the gettext domain for translation at runtime - you >> don't merge translations back into the xml. >> > > Thanks, Matthias. Indeed it is a 0.19.7 feature. I've updated the > migration guide and now I'll go update my own project to 0.19.7 to make > sure my advice is correct :-P >
After trying it out, it's very unfortunate that msgfmt doesn't have an argument allowing you to specify a custom ITS rule; it only detects ones that have been installed into the Gettext data directories. It seems this can be worked around by specifying a local path in the GETTEXTDATADIR(S) environment variables. As I had to find that out by reading the Gettext source, I'm not sure how well it can be relied on; maybe the itstool hack is better if you have to merge translations back. Also, if you use xgettext's --its option to specify a custom ITS rule, then it seems not to pick up translatable strings from C sources anymore; but without it, it won't pick them up from the XML files. I'll check again tomorrow and otherwise report this as a bug. I've reverted the last section of the migration guide back to the itstool instructions for now. Regards, Philip C
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