Re: gettext tools / squeezing whitespace

[Karl Eichwalder]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

Hello Bruno,

thanks for your fast reply!

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>> There should be a switch
>
> For which program? msgmerge? Or the gettext() function?

msgmerge probably, but more important are the tools like msgcat and
msgcomm.

> You mean, msgids or msgstrs?

At the moment, I'm most interested in msgids.

> What do you want to achieve with such a whitespace tolerant
> comparison? msgmerge's fuzzy comparison already recognizes these
> cases.

No, for my special applicition this isn't enough.  From time to time I
misuse the .po file format and the gettext tools for proofreading
purposes.

This means I've a database like file with approved messages (let's call
it good.pot).  Then new .pot file for proofreading arrives (new.pot).
Using gettext tool I can extract those messages from new.pot that are
not available in goog.pot; only these messages need proofreading.

Sometimes there are some small whitespace differences; at times, I'd
like to exclude those messages from proofreading.  If msgcat and
msgcomm would support my proposed whitespace handling (squeezing), I
could achieve my goal.  If wanted I can write a test file.

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