Re: Obsolete gettext module mentioned in manual?

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
>> I'm reading
>> 
>>   
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/gettextize-and-autopoint.html
>> 
>> that recommends using the 'gettext' module but it is marked obsolete:
>> 
>>   This module is obsolete. Use the module 'gettext-h' instead to make
>>   your program capable of internationalization, when GNU gettext is also
>>   used.
>> 
>> Is this part of the manual outdated?
>
> The module should probably not have been marked obsolete. But I haven't worked
> out the solution to this conflict yet.
>
> In other words, feel free to continue to use this module...

Ouch, okay.  I can't work out if the problems I'm experiencing (for
example [1]) are due to my misunderstandings, bugs in my package, bugs
in gnulib, bugs in gettext, bugs in the external build systems, or
something else.  I prefer not to change anything (including reverting
back to using 'gettext' module, that I stopped using a long time ago)
until I understand what is going on.  I don't understand when to use the
'gettext' module and when to use the 'gettext-h' module, except that the
Status: obsolete drive me away from gettext and things appear to be
working relatively well with gettext-h.

/Simon

[1] https://gitlab.com/libidn/libidn2/-/issues/108

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