Re: gettext(1) implementation

[William Orr <will%worrbase.com@localhost>]

On 06/07/2015 12:51 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Am 02.06.15 um 21:54 schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 09:47:44PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > > Am 01.06.15 um 08:21 schrieb William Orr:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > For testing some of my changes, I ended up writing a BSD-licensed gettext(1)
> > > > implementation. I'm not sure how useful people will find it, but I found it
> > > > very useful for testing gettext extraction.
> > > >
> > > > Currently, I've implemented the same features that exist in the GNU gettext(1)
> > > > command. I'm thinking of adding more (easier message context support, for one)
> > > > if this gets merged.
> > >
> > > Does it contain Lua support, i.e. extracting messages from Lua programs,
> > > as GNU gettext does?
> >
> > Wrong tool.
>
> What exactly do you mean with "wrong tool"?

gettext is a tool that will translate messages passed on the command line.

xgettext is the tool that extracts internationalized strings from source 
code.