From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:41:59 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Notes about KDE's context problem.
X-Git-Tag: v0.12~259
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=03ebbc02caf484a79d00b541b6c595cda4654198;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

Notes about KDE's context problem.
---

diff --git a/Admin/kde-i18n b/Admin/kde-i18n
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c3306c08b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Admin/kde-i18n
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+> But I agree with you that
+> 
+>        i18n("title in dialog","Check Equations")
+> 
+> would be prettier and easier to maintain, but needs some xgettext
+> support.
+Which we added with a little hack.
+
+# This is a patch for gettext-0.10.35 to allow translated messages
+# to have a context as used in Qt and KDE. 
+# (C) 2000 Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org>
+
+--- src/xgettext.c.orig	Sun May 14 18:16:25 2000
++++ src/xgettext.c	Sun May 14 18:27:20 2000
+@@ -835,7 +835,8 @@
+      int is_cpp_file;
+ {
+   int state;
+-
++  char *msgid = 0;
++  
+   /* Inform scanner whether we have C++ files or not.  */
+   if (is_cpp_file)
+     xgettext_lex_cplusplus ();
+@@ -861,8 +862,11 @@
+ 	State 3 = seen one of our keywords with string in second parameter
+ 	State 4 = was in state 3 and now saw a left paren
+ 	State 5 = waiting for comma after being in state 4
+-	State 6 = saw comma after being in state 5  */
++	State 6 = saw comma after being in state 5  
++	State 7 = after comma and State 2
++     */
+      xgettext_lex (&token);
++
+      switch (token.type)
+        {
+        case xgettext_token_type_keyword1:
+@@ -886,18 +890,51 @@
+ 	     state = 0;
+ 	   }
+ 	 continue;
++       
++       case xgettext_token_type_rp:
++	 if (state == 2) {
++	   token.string = strdup(msgid);
++	   remember_a_message (mlp, &token);
++	   free(msgid);
++	   msgid = 0;
++	   state = 0;
++	 }
++	 continue;   
+ 
+        case xgettext_token_type_comma:
+-	 state = state == 5 ? 6 : 0;
++	 switch (state) {
++	 case 5:
++	   state = 6;
++	   break;
++	 case 2:
++	   state = 7;
++	   break;
++	 default:
++	   state = 0;
++	   break;
++	 }
+ 	 continue;
+ 
+        case xgettext_token_type_string_literal:
+ 	 if (extract_all || state == 2 || state == 6)
+ 	   {
+-	     remember_a_message (mlp, &token);
+-	     state = 0;
++	     if (msgid)
++	       free(msgid);
++	     msgid = strdup(token.string);
++	     //	     state = 0;
++	   }
++	 else if (state == 7) 
++	   {
++	     if (msgid) {
++	       char *newstring = (char*)malloc(strlen(msgid) + strlen(token.string) + 20);
++	       sprintf(newstring, "_: %s\n%s", msgid, token.string);
++	       free(msgid);
++	       free(token.string);
++	       token.string = msgid = newstring;
++	       state = 2;
++	     }
+ 	   }
+-	 else
++	 else 
+ 	   {
+ 	     free (token.string);
+ 	     state = (state == 4 || state == 5) ? 5 : 0;
+
+
+Also need the corresponding two-argument gettext function in libgettext.h:
+gettext2(role,msg) :=
+  msgid := "_: " + role + "\n" + msg
+  trans := gettext(msgid)
+  return (trans == msgid ? msg : trans);