Re: [bug-gettext] xgettext - add option to overwrite the file name in the location comment

[Moritz Schmale]

> Am 09.06.2017 um 01:44 schrieb Bruno Haible <address@hidden>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>> Stack Overflow Discussion:
>>> I am using xgettext with standard input because the input is not available 
>>> in a file.
> 
> The GNU gettext documentation [1] explains that these references are useful
> for a translator to understand the context of a certain message. (Admittedly
> a translator who has an at least rough understanding of a programming 
> language.)
> 
> You cannot give this service to a translator if the input is not available as 
> a
> file.

The input comes from an actual file, but it's precompiled. The toolchain 
operates completely in-memory until the final files are emitted. I could write 
the memory contents to a file and then have xgettext load that file but it 
would mean hundreds of little files written just to be deleted after. 

> Therefore you should try to make the input available as a file, and make it 
> clear
> to the translator where to find this source file.
> 
> If you really can't do that, you can use the xgettext option '--no-location'.
> 
>> I need an option added to the xgettext utility that would allow me to 
>> overwrite the filename used in the location line. Currently, when supplying 
>> the source code via stdin, it just says “#: standard input:123”, and I want 
>> to be able to control what it says instead of “standard input”.
> 
> There is no point in introducing such an option. If the translator cannot
> get the file mentioned in the references, the references are useless.

My goal here is to provide the translator with the actual file and the filename 
I would like to provide is the real filename. 

> Bruno
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/C-Sources-Context.html
>