Re: how to harvest translatable strings from generated files?

[Aharon Robbins]

> Yes, and it is some effort to make 'xgettext' understand a custom format.

Can I suggest a new option?

        xgettext --external-program="program --gen-pot"

which invokes `program' with the `--gen-pot' option. That program
reads the custom-format file and generates a standard GNU .pot file
on standard output (or some such). This is a generalization of
what happens now with gawk, and allows trivial extension to other
file formats.  (My reasoning is that gawk already knows how to parse
awk programs, let it do the hard part, and producing a .pot file
isn't that hard.)

HTH,

Arnold
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