Re: Bug#573770: xgettext: Fails to output some marked perl strings for translation (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Guillem Jover wrote:
> It seems xgettext does not extract all marked strings in the perl
> program update-alternatives. ...
> 
> The test case:
> 
>   $ xgettext -L Perl --from-code=UTF-8 -k_g /usr/bin/update-alternatives
> ...
> The file can also be retrieved from git:
> 
>  
> <http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/update-alternatives.pl;hb=HEAD>

Thanks for this report and test case. Guido Flohr has fixed this bug yesterday:
  
<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=e53359672a6c99adeee2c0234dae0d0fbc47feed>

The fix will be contained in the next release.

Bruno