From: Masao Mutoh <mutoh@...>
Date: 2003-07-02T03:08:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Message catalogs (I18N) overnight hack...

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 22:48:21 +0900
Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> # pkg_add gmake-3.79.1_1.tgz
> pkg_add: could not find package libiconv-1.7_5 !
> pkg_add: could not find package expat-1.95.2 !
> pkg_add: could not find package gettext-0.11.1_3 !
> 
> It seemed strange to me that a 'make' utility would have a dependency on an
> XML parser. It turns out that gettext is the GNU way to deal with this:
> 
> [man gettext]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        The  gettext program translates a natural language message
>        into the user's language, by looking up the translation in
>        a message catalog.
> 
> I imagine that the source format for these message catalogues is XML, and
> hence the requirement on an XML parser (although IMO gettext should be split
> into two: a client side which just reads the message catalogues, which
> appear to be in a binary format, and a -devel package which includes the
> XML-to-message-catalogue tools. But I digress).

expat is used in xgettext for glade only.
xgettext is the tool which extract translatable strings from given source codes.

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>