Re: gettext: msgmerge feature requests

[Bruno Haible]

On Friday 13 September 2002, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> Two enhancement proposals:
> 
> 1. New option to prevent msgmerge from creating new fuzzy entries.  If
>    no exact match is found, leave the translation empty.
>    That's for user convenience.  You can achieve the requested feature
>    using a weird combination of existing commands.

Indeed using existing commands it's quite complicated to achieve. I've added
an option --no-fuzzy-matching to msgmerge, for gettext-0.12.

> 2. New option to mark all messages imported from a compendium (via
>    --compendium) as fuzzy.  Or mark them with a new flag
>    ("from-compendium"?).
>    Maybe, this second proposal were already rejected, because a
>    combination of available command can do the job--but I'm not sure.

Yes this is the case. Just pipe the compendium through "msgattrib --set-fuzzy",
and you're done.

Bruno