Re: gettext(1) implementation

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 08.06.15 um 07:37 schrieb William Orr:
> 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.

Now it makes sense, thanks ;)

I used a fairly recent GNU xgettext to extract messages from Lua code,
indeed.