Re: [Gimp-developer] Translating GIMP from GIMP master (is wrong)

[Kevin Cozens <kevin ve3syb ca>]

On 12-05-09 05:30 AM, Gabor Kelemen wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations/+bug/986897
>
> Seems like a recent change in intltool causes this, which makes the scheme
> string extraction done by xgettext instead of intltools built-in and dropped
> parser.

The information for revision 722 indicates that intltool-extract.in and 
intltool-update.in had the support for Scheme code in files ending with .scm 
removed. The test case file "test.scm" was also removed.

I would be interested to know more about why this change was made. Back in 
the early days of gimp when these two scripts were part of the GIMP source 
tree we had to apply a patch to make them handle the marked strings in 
GIMP's .scm files.

It's almost as if there is supposed to be one way of marking strings in 
Scheme based scripts (regardless of which interpreter is being used), or 
xgettext never got the additional changes to handle strings marked in .scm 
files the way they are in GIMP's Script-Fu scripts, or both.

If there is a move towards using xgettext to do string extraction we need to 
find out how to use it to extract strings from Script-Fu scripts. If it 
can't do that, we should ask the gettext people to update xgettext to 
include the code that was dropped from the two external scripts.

> In turn, http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Scheme says
> that the gettext shorthand for scheme strings is (_"foo"), so I think your
> source files should be modified to conform this notation.

Scheme in gettext manual references GNU guile. BTW, the markup it uses has a 
space between the _ and the opening " of the string. The form _"abc" is 
still valid markup for awk but I don't expect that to be of much help to us.

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