[Po4a-devel] xgettext -L Perl

[Denis Barbier]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 01:20:09PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 12:35:02AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > Martin,
> > 
> > I would like to use "xgettext -L Perl" to generate po4a.pot, but it
> > requires a recent gettext (IIRC 0.13).  This command will only be
> > run by us, so it does not add any dependency for end users.
> > Are you running a gettext version with Perl support?
> 
> mquinson@manitee:~$ LC_ALL=C dpkg -l gettext
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                   Version                Description
> +++-======================-======================-============================================================
> ii  gettext                0.14.1-2               GNU Internationalization utilities
> 
> It's good.

Great.  The main advantage is that
  gettext("foo\n"."bar")
gives then a single msgid, which is much more practical.
I am going to work on po4a.pot generation.

Denis