Re: POSIX msgfmt and escape sequences in msgid and msgid_plural strings

Bruno Haible wrote, on 23 Jun 2022: > > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft > Line 1031 > > "C-language escape sequences in message strings shall be processed as > specified for character string literals in the ISO C standard ..." > > Issue: The way this is written, it is not possible to

Re: POSIX msgfmt and universal-character-name escape sequences

Bruno Haible wrote, on 23 Jun 2022: > > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft > Line 1031 > > "except that universal-character-name escape sequences need not be supported." > > Neither GNU msgfmt nor Solaris msgfmt treat universal-character-name > escape sequences specially. If an msgstr

Re: POSIX xgettext and the -s option

Bruno Haible wrote, on 23 Jun 2022: > > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft > Lines 1164, 1166, 1187, 1221-1222 > > Issue: The option '-s' has been found to be counter-productive in practice, > and therefore has been deprecated in GNU gettext. > See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61249 . >

Re: POSIX xgettext and the initial domain directive

Bruno Haible wrote, on 23 Jun 2022: > > https://posix.rhansen.org/p/gettext_draft > Line 1183 > > "The first directive in each created dot-po file shall be a domain directive > giving the associated domain name" > > GNU gettext currently does not do this. Solaris gettext does it. > The msgfmt