[bug #66648] xgettext fails to detect plurals

[Bruno Haible]

Update of bug #66648 (group gettext):

                  Status:                    None => Answer Provided
             Assigned to:                    None => haible
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed

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Follow-up Comment #1:


> the first attempt via e-mail seems to have been lost...

Your mail was stuck for 12 minutes at lists.gnu.org and then processed
normally, archived at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gettext/2025-01/msg00023.html .

> doesn't detect that txt_s and txt_p are plural forms of the same
message.

That's because you declare their contents with the N_ macro, which takes only
1 argument. xgettext processes one declaration at a time; it extracts the
strings when it sees

const char txt_s[] = N_("single");

and

const char txt_p[] = N_("plural");

At this point, xgettext cannot know how the program will use txt_s and txt_p.

> Is there any option/way to tell xgettext to "resolve" the indirection?

You could write

#define ngettext_noop(sing,plur) { sing, plur }
const char *txt[2] = ngettext_noop ("single", "plural");

and invoke xgettext with the option --keyword=ngettext_noop:1,2 .


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