Re: Feature Request: Keep user defined tags

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Christian Buhtz wrote:
> please allow me to suggest an improvement for gettext which would make 
> my life easier.
> 
> I do have a po file like this
> 
> #, python-brace-format, my-foobar-tag
> msgid "my id"
> msgstr "meine ID"
> 
> My problem is that msgmerge --update create this out of it and remove 
> the "my-foobar-tag" because it doesn't know it.
> 
> #, python-brace-format
> msgid "my id"
> msgstr "meine ID"
> 
> But I need to keep tags, even if msgmerge doesn't know them. There are 
> good reason in my workflow to keep them.

Could you please register a ticket for this in the "Bugs" tracker at
<https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext/>?

> For example I do run additional (semantic) tests on my po files. To 
> influence the behavior of that tests, e.g. formulate exceptional cases, 
> I use this tags.

In order to understand the requirement better, I would also need to know
more about the workflow:
  - Which processing step sets this tag, and who sets it?
  - Which processing step uses this tag (for testing)?

Bruno