Re: popt and i18n

["Andrew V. Samoilov" <kai cmail ru>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Andrew V. Samoilov wrote:
>
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > There is POPT_ macro used in the popt subsystem for translated strings. 
> >  This macro is not recognized by xgettext, so I see 2 ways to see these 
> > strings accepted:
> >
> > 1) Replace POPT_ with _ in src/popt*.*
> > 2) Add POPT_ to the po/Makevars.  This way requires gettext 0.11+ to be 
> > used.
>
>
> Can you actually make one of those messages appear on the screen?  I guess
> the reason why POPT_ is used is to save translators time translating
> things that have very little chance to appear on the screen, at least for
> "normal" users.

mc -?
and you can see at least 4 such messages: "Usage:", "[OPTION...]", "ARG" 
;-) and "-?: unknown option".

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Regards,
Andrew V. Samoilov