Re: msgfilter and msgids

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi Bruno,

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:45:29PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
> msgcat has the effect of "normalizing" the PO file, undoing the effects
> of earlier "-w 10000" options.

I missed that, thank you for explaining this to me.

Pavel's problem is that he has a mix of po files with values of `-w'.

Consequently, he want's to avoid any ``normalization'' because it would
bring unwanted changes.  He seemed to suppose that msgfilter provides
this.

I experimented with msgfilter just now and discovered that it has
the same behaviour as msgcat: it reformats the strings according to the
-w option (or --no-wrap).

So it seems that even if msgformat supported changes in msgid's, as Pavel
wants, the problem would still be the same.

BTW: Pavel cannot use msgdiff, as the generated patch wouldn't apply to
his non-normalized po files.

So unless the translators agree on a common value of -w, there is no
good solution.

Thank you again for explaining this to us,
        Stepan Kasal