Re: Comment not extracted to po file

[Pádraig Brady]

Göran Uddeborg wrote:
> In coreutils 7.1, in src/system.h, there is this nicely commented
> piece of code:
> 
>   /* TRANSLATORS: Replace LANG_CODE in this URL with your language code
>      <http://translationproject.org/team/LANG_CODE.html> to form one of
>      the URLs at http://translationproject.org/team/.  Otherwise, replace
>      the entire URL with your translation team's email address.  */
>   if (hard_locale (LC_MESSAGES))
>     printf (_("Report %s translation bugs to "
>             "<http://translationproject.org/team/>\n"),
>           last_component (program_name));
> 
> Unfortunately, the comment is not picked up by xgettext, apparently
> because it is before the "if" line.  If you would move the comment
> below that line, your nice message would be included in the po files
> immediately available for all us translators! :-)

How about the attached.
I haven't tested it as I'm afraid it'll spin my CPU for hours.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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* src/system.h: Move the translator comment adjacent
to the translated string.
---
 src/system.h |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
index 2f6249b..990be0c 100644
--- a/src/system.h
+++ b/src/system.h
@@ -627,14 +627,16 @@ emit_bug_reporting_address (void)
   fputs (_("General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>\n"),
         stdout);
 
-  /* TRANSLATORS: Replace LANG_CODE in this URL with your language code
-     <http://translationproject.org/team/LANG_CODE.html> to form one of
-     the URLs at http://translationproject.org/team/.  Otherwise, replace
-     the entire URL with your translation team's email address.  */
   if (hard_locale (LC_MESSAGES))
-    printf (_("Report %s translation bugs to "
-             "<http://translationproject.org/team/>\n"),
-           last_component (program_name));
+    {
+      /* TRANSLATORS: Replace LANG_CODE in this URL with your language code
+        <http://translationproject.org/team/LANG_CODE.html> to form one of
+        the URLs at http://translationproject.org/team/.  Otherwise, replace
+        the entire URL with your translation team's email address.  */
+      printf (_("Report %s translation bugs to "
+               "<http://translationproject.org/team/>\n"),
+               last_component (program_name));
+    }
 }
 
 #include "inttostr.h"
-- 
1.5.3.6