Re: Capability mismatch between gettext-lib and gettext-tools

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 07:36:40PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> On Fri, 03 May 2013 18:56:35 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:11:18AM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> >>On Fri, 03 May 2013 00:12:59 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> >><joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:25:29PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> >>>>* NetBSD's gettext-lib is not a GNU's one, but it is supported.
> >>>>  whereas gettext-tools is still GNU's 0.14.4, and not support it.
> >>>
> >>>But the main problem remains that NetBSD's libintl doesn't support the
> >>>newer .po format, which is used by msgfmt from gettext 0.15+ to provide
> >>>context based translations.
> >>
> >>Do you think what is missing in NetBSD's libintl for context based
> >>translations?
> >>I know msgfmt(1) is missing to handle it, not libintl.
> >
> >Context based translations required a newer .po format. We only support
> >for the first version AFAIK.
> 
> No, same format with application level additional usage.

From the source, it is using version 2 or so of the binary format, we
only support format version 0.

Joerg