Re: Bug#374483: gettext does not detect "gettext" and "eval_gettext" strings in Shell scripts (fwd)

[Michelle Konzack]

Am 2006-06-20 14:06:51, schrieb Bruno Haible:
> Hi,
> 
> Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > If I create my POT file, gettext does not detect gettext strings if I
> > use for example
> > 
> > Xdialog --title "gettext test" \
> >         --backtitle "$(gettext 'This is a gettext test.')" \
> >         --msgbox "$(gettext 'Hey maintainer, I like gettext supporting 
> > this.')" 0x0
> 
> Indeed, xgettext so far only supports the backquoted syntax

Right and the suggestion to remove the outher quotes is not realy good,
since in Xdialog the line

    Xdialog --msgbox $(gettext 'I like gettext supporting this.') 0x0

become

    Xdialog --msgbox I like gettext supporting this. 0x0

which mean, Xdialog think, each word of the phrase is a parameter...

> Xdialog --title "gettext test" \
>         --backtitle "`gettext 'This is a gettext test.'`" \
>         --msgbox "`gettext 'Hey maintainer, I like gettext supporting 
> this.'`" 0x0

> But I'm not recommending that you change your scripts to use this antique
> backquote syntax. The $(...) syntax is so much better. Please have a little
> patience until xgettext support for it is added.

No problem I will wait for the new feature... like to test it.

Sometimes I have experienced errors using the backticks so I have
changed all of my scripts using $() construchts whichg are working
perfectly and went suggested by several developers.

> Thanks for the report! It's only through such reports that I get aware of
> such "small" missing features.

I know  ;-)

But keep attention if they are some constructs like:


RETVAL=$(Xdialog --title "gettext test" \
--backtitle "$(gettext 'This is a gettext test.')" \
--inputbox "$(gettext 'I like gettext supporting this.')" 0x0 $INIT)

With my script which replace currently xgettext I had some problems...

:-)

But now it works...

> Bruno


Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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