[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: gettext tools / squeezing whitespace
From: |
Karl Eichwalder |
Subject: |
Re: gettext tools / squeezing whitespace |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 18:43:00 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
Hello Bruno,
thanks for your fast reply!
> This URL is not world-readable.
Yes, but it's possible for interested developers and users to apply for
an account. Just drop me a line if you want me to arrange an qualified
account.
> Please include all relevant information in your mail to
> bug-gnu-gettext.
Sure. Their isn't more info ;)
>> There should be a switch
>
> For which program? msgmerge? Or the gettext() function?
msgmerge probably, but more important are the tools like msgcat and
msgcomm.
> You mean, msgids or msgstrs?
At the moment, I'm most interested in msgids.
> What do you want to achieve with such a whitespace tolerant
> comparison? msgmerge's fuzzy comparison already recognizes these
> cases.
No, for my special applicition this isn't enough. From time to time I
misuse the .po file format and the gettext tools for proofreading
purposes.
This means I've a database like file with approved messages (let's call
it good.pot). Then new .pot file for proofreading arrives (new.pot).
Using gettext tool I can extract those messages from new.pot that are
not available in goog.pot; only these messages need proofreading.
Sometimes there are some small whitespace differences; at times, I'd
like to exclude those messages from proofreading. If msgcat and
msgcomm would support my proposed whitespace handling (squeezing), I
could achieve my goal. If wanted I can write a test file.
--
address@hidden (work) / address@hidden (home): |
http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | ,__o
Free Translation Project: | _-\_<,
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)