Re: functions inside gettext calls

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Tomas posted this to gnome-i18n, so I've forwarded it to the  
Translation Project mailing list, where I know there is a lot of  
expertise regarding gettext. :)

On 16/06/2006, at 3:47 PM, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there some documentation that explains why functions can't be used
> inside gettext() and ngettext() calls?
>
> For example N_(some_function()) or
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345027
>
> I know that function string can't be extracted with xgettext, but  
> can't
> find anything related about it in
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/guides/programming-guidelines/l10n.html
>
> Gettext manual has chapter about special strings
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/ 
> gettext_19.html#SEC19),
>  but I think chapter text is too complex to understand for people  
> that are
> only starting to learn gettext.
>
> P.S. In programming guidelines second code snippet should use ngettext
> instead of (num_monkeys > 1) test.
>
> --
> Tomas
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