Re: [bug-gettext] JavaScript support status

[Daiki Ueno]

Hello,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to get an understanding of:
>   - What is the JavaScript community doing w.r.t. localization and PO and MO
>     files?
>   - What can/should the GNU gettext package do in order to be useful for this
>     community?
>
> Here's a set of packages and use situations I could find. It does not give a
> big picture to me. Can someone shed some light on anything of this, and
> clarify?

I doubt it would be useful to support for particular Web frameworks;
they still shoot up like mushrooms after a rain.

On the other hand, it would be useful to add a minimal xgettext support
for JSON, which is considered stable, through a generic mechanism like
ITS:
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48903#comment1

> - gjs (command-line, but linked to Mozilla's JavaScript) [who uses that?]

gjs is extensively used by GNOME; you can see the list of such modules
(search with "JavaScript"):
https://git.gnome.org/browse/

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno