From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 10:01:24 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: NEWS: Mention the prefixed comment-tag change
X-Git-Tag: v0.19~51
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ef6b8140a371547818e5657936265a46f2ead877;p=thirdparty%2Fgettext.git

NEWS: Mention the prefixed comment-tag change
---

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 205f8dcf6..46455bdd1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ Version 0.19 - unreleased
   and DIST_DEPENDS_ON_UPDATE_PO, that can be used to adjust the
   behavior of updating PO files on demand.
 
+* xgettext now strips prefixed string before the comment tag.  This is
+  useful to support C-style comment like this:
+
+  /*
+   * TRANSLATORS: first line
+   * second line
+   */
+
+  In this example, the extracted comment does not contain "* " at the
+  beginning of each line.
+
 * libgettextpo library:
   - Memory leak fixes in the PO file parser.