Re: xgettext recognise .scm extension

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Bruno Haible writes:

> Can you please tell me which Scheme implementation you use with gettext?

This is for use with Guile.  The guile developers suggested using this
construct:

   (_ "foo")

which works fine for xgettext.

> Last time I looked at guile, it didn't support Unicode strings nor
> an interface to libintl.

Indeed.  However as Guile is (primarily?) an extension language, using
(x)gettext from Scheme with a C gettext binding is a fair solution.

If you are using plain 8bit strings, it can be done now.

> Without a complete working example, as in
> gettext-tools/examples/hello-clisp/, this is not very useful,
> however.

Sure, this new patch includes an example.

Greetings,
Jan.

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