Re: Generating catalog from js file

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le lundi 30 mai 2011 à 07:57 +0200, Pau Iranzo a écrit :
> Hi, Claude,
> 
> 2011/5/27 Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>
>         Hi Pau,
>         
>         Your xgettext call is not correct. -f is not intended to
>         define files to
>         extract strings from, but a file which might contain a list of
>         paths to
>         consider for extraction. Please read 'man xgettext' again.
>         
>         But you are also right: there is no pure xgettext javascript
>         parser.
>         Even if most of the time the default C parser will do it fine
>         (or the
>         Perl one in certain cases), this is an issue where I think we
>         need
>         someone to step up and write a dedicated parser.
>         
> 
> I've found this tutorial:
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions/FAQ/CreatingExtensions
> 
> But using this command to generate a pot file:
> xgettext -k_ -kN_ -o messages.pot extension.js
> 
> Seems to not work either. Gettext says that it can't recognise the
> «js» extension:
> 
> [pau@localhost weather venemo net]$ xgettext -k_ -kN_ -o messages.pot
> extension.js
> xgettext: avís: l’extensió «js» del fitxer «extension.js» no és
> coneguda; es provarà amb el llenguatge «C»
> 
> (warning: the 'js' extension is unknown, trying with C language)
> 
> I'm using Fedora 15 and have installed the translator-toolkit. Am I
> missing any libraries?

Mmmmh... did you really read my mail :-)
The warning you obtain is an awaited behaviour. Just check messages.pot
which should contain extracted strings.

Claude

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