popt and i18n

[Andrew V. Samoilov]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 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.
> 

mc -?
and you can see at least 4 such messages: "Usage:", "[OPTION...]", "ARG" 
;-) and "-?: unknown option".

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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov