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Re: automake: make update-po with different gettext versions
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Bruno Haible |
Subject: |
Re: automake: make update-po with different gettext versions |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:36:18 +0200 |
Hi,
Felix Natter wrote:
> which undoes "my" formatting change:
>
> -"manual (at http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/doc/, or type \"info "
> -"gtypist\")\n"
> +"manual (at http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/doc/, or type \"info gtypist"
> +"\")\n"
Yes, this is unfortunate.
> If I am right and different gettext versions have different line
> lengths
Different msgmerge versions have different line breaking algorithms
(because it's based on the Unicode line breaking algorithm, and
Unicode evolves over time). The default line length is 80 in all versions.
> how can we avoid this? Hack automake to use "msgmerge --width
> 80"?
I would try to change the value of MSGMERGE_OPTIONS in po/Makevars:
MSGMERGE_OPTIONS = --width=999
Bruno