popt and i18n

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Thu Oct 3 17:40:22 UTC 2002


On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> There is POPT_ macro used in the popt subsystem for translated strings. 
>   This macro is not recognized by xgettext, so I see 2 ways to see these 
> strings accepted:
> 
> 1) Replace POPT_ with _ in src/popt*.*
> 2) Add POPT_ to the po/Makevars.  This way requires gettext 0.11+ to be 
> used.

Can you actually make one of those messages appear on the screen?  I guess
the reason why POPT_ is used is to save translators time translating
things that have very little chance to appear on the screen, at least for
"normal" users.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin




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