Re: gettext tools / squeezing whitespace

[Karl Eichwalder]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> 1) You are using only the msgid part, not really translations. So what
> you actually use are files containing lists of strings. Much more
> general tools should be available (databases etc.).

Yes, but for some reason I prefer to stay with the .po file format for
the moment.  But I'll check out available database solutions.

> 2) You can achieve what you want by abusing the gettext tools in the
> following way. You pipe every input file through 3 filters:
>    a. msgen,
>    b. msgfilter sed -e 's/  */ /g'
>    c. a simple script which converts
>
>           msgid "foo"
>           msgstr "bar"
>
>       into
>
>           msgid "bar"
>           msgstr ""

Yes, I use this approach for merging back the corrections.  But that's
not what is required to solve the special job I described.  For
step c. I'm using an awk script; the interesting part is dealing with
plural form messages ;-)

> 3) Paul Eggert and I are / will be working on a program 'msgdiff'
> which should make the proofreading task for translators easier. A kind
> of "ediff" between PO/POT files. This tool could also be abused for
> your case.

Yes, this could help, but for my special application it would be
overkill.  For sure, the diff'ing feature will help translators.

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