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<H1 ALIGN="CENTER">A tutorial on Native Language Support using GNU gettext</H1><DIV CLASS="author_info">
Now, it is time to extract the strings to be translated from the program
source code. This is achieved with <TT>xgettext</TT>, which can be invoked as follows:
<PRE><FONT color="red">
- xgettext -d hello -s -o hello.pot hello.c
+ xgettext -d hello -o hello.pot hello.c
</FONT></PRE>
This processes the source code in hello.c, saving the output in hello.pot (the
-argument to the -o option). The -s option tells <TT>xgettext</TT> to produce sorted
-output. The message domain for the program should be specified as the argument
+argument to the -o option).
+The message domain for the program should be specified as the argument
to the -d option, and should match the domain specified in the call to
<TT>textdomain</TT> (on line 9 of the program source). Other details on how to use
<TT>gettext</TT> can be found from ``man gettext.''
As before, extract the translatable strings from hello.c to a new portable
object template file, hello-new.pot, using <TT>xgettext</TT>,
<PRE><FONT color="red">
- xgettext -d hello -s -o hello-new.pot hello.c
+ xgettext -d hello -o hello-new.pot hello.c
</FONT></PRE>
Now, we use a new program, <TT>msgmerge</TT>, to merge the existing .po file with
translations into the new template file, viz.,
<PRE><FONT color="red">
- msgmerge -s -U oriya.po hello-new.pot
+ msgmerge -U oriya.po hello-new.pot
</FONT></PRE>
-The -s option produces sorted output, and the -U option updates the existing
+The -U option updates the existing
.po file, oriya.po. We could have chosen to instead create a new .po file by
using ``-o <SPAN CLASS="MATH"><</SPAN>filename<SPAN CLASS="MATH">></SPAN>'' instead of -U. The updated .po file will still
have the old translations embedded in it, and new entries with untranslated
<P>
The translation was initiated by Gora Mohanty on 2004-07-24
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2004-07-24
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