Re: podiff

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> > Do you know of po-diffing functionality could be put into the regular
> > gettext software package somehow?
>
> If it is useful and not already covered by one or a combination of
> several of the tools coming with gettext then chances are that good
> Bruno will think about it and eventually add such a command line tool.
> To be discussed by mail or via the
> translation-i18n@lists.sourceforge.net list.

Ok, I'll send a request there.


> > I don't use po-mode myself but in the Swedish team, we regularily use
> > an old, unmaintained and buggy perl hack that produces diffs that
> > works on po files, so that we can review changes to translations. I
> > imagine it would be useful for more than us if there was some sort of
> > "msgdiff" utility distributed with gettext itself.
>
> I don't talk perl and I don't know where I can find podiff or
> po-diff.  How does the output of po-diff look?

You can find it at http://www.uddeborg.pp.se/sv/podiff

It's a Swedish hack, that's why it puts "N" in front of new strings and
"G" in front of old strings (the Swedish word for "old" is "gammal").


Christian