Re: msgfilter and msgids

[Pavel Janík]

   From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
   Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:05:03 +0100

   > > msgfilter allows me to modify all msgstrs. But it can't modify
   > > msgids. Could be very valuable...
   > 
   > How could this be useful? The msgids are extracted from the program's 
source
   > code.

gettext is no longer only used like it was designed ;-)

Image a huge project that many lines like this:

msgstr "\\<image id=\\\"img_id3154571\\\" 
src=\\\"res/commandimagelist/sc_square_rounded_unfilled.png\\\" 
width=\\\"0.222inch\\\" height=\\\"0.222inch\\\"\\>\\<alt 
id=\\\"alt_id3154571\\\" xml-lang=\\\"en-US\\\"\\>Icon\\</alt\\>\\</image\\>"
msgstr "\\<image id=\\\"img_id3154571\\\" 
src=\\\"res/commandimagelist/sc_square_rounded_unfilled.png\\\" 
width=\\\"0.222inch\\\" height=\\\"0.222inch\\\"\\>\\<alt 
id=\\\"alt_id3154571\\\" xml-lang=\\\"cs\\\"\\>Ikonka\\</alt\\>\\</image\\>"

Now, we would like to filter xml-lang="xx" out of both msgid and
msgstr. Easy task when msgid and also msgstrs are on one line, but the are
often wrapped depending on the PO editor translators used.

If I use msgfilter to filter xml-lang away from msgstr and do next round of
updates from POT files, I'll lost all translations (previous translations
will be marked as old).
-- 
Pavel Janík

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