Re: Bugs in xgettext compared with msgcat

[Bruno Haible]

Marc Bauer wrote:
> This sounds very good. Now we only need to find a compiled windows version
> 0.16.1 to deliver with the next poEdit version... :-). I'm unable to find
> this one yet.

libiconv 1.11 and gettext 0.16.1 compile out of the box with mingw. Anyone
equipped with a mingw system can create such binaries.

> > This is how the tools are supposed to work. msgcat, like xgettext, will
> > combine the header comments. But you passed the option --use-first to
> > msgcat, hence msgcat assumes that the header comments from the other files
> > are irrelevant.
> 
> Is there a way for xgettext to change this behaviour? Any additional command
> line option available to solve this problem?

Can you explain more in which situation you are and what you want to do? Since
you use poEdit, I guess you are in the role of a translator, not a programmer?
Then why do you use xgettext? Do you want to emulate translation memory?
Or why do you have many individual catalogs in the first place?

I can make the tools good for you only if I understand how you are using them.

Bruno