Re: What is the standard way to extract references in a PO file?

[Etienne Rouxel]

On 09.06.2021 15:51, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > This creates compatibility problems with tools involved in working with
> > PO files. A program can extract the references from the source code
> > using one style and the translation program used by the translator can
> > rewrite the references with the other style. That leads to complicated
> > merges of the translations back into the code repository.
>
> Ah, the merges are the problem. In this case, I recommend to normalize
> the PO files before commit. Normalizing means eliminating the possible
> variations. A reasonable normalization command is to pipe the PO file
> through
>     msgcat --width=80

Hi,

Thank you Bruno! This helps a lot.

Is this recommendation available publicly on the Internet so that I can 
link to it?
If not, would you consider adding it somewhere?

Etienne Rouxel

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