[MPlayer-dev-eng] Dutch Translation

Anders Rune Jensen anders at gnulinux.dk
Sun May 5 11:47:03 CEST 2002


Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045 at student.liu.se> writes:

> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:27:45AM +0200, Anders Rune Jensen wrote:
> > Nope not entirely correct. The gettext thingy that grabs strings to a
> > master translate file doesn't work with our mp_msg system. Therefor
> > I've been trying to build a perl script that does that. It's about
> > half finished, still some bugs, but I havn't had much time to work on
> > it. Sorry.
> > 
> > What works with gettext is the mp_gettext("something"), unfortuanatly
> > we have only about 3 of those or so :)
> > 
> > I'll look into it and see if I can't get a masterfile working.
> >
> 
> Here is the solution to this problem:
> 
> xgettext can do it. It isn't documented very well (debians man pages
> don't mention it and the documentation on www.gnu.org don't mention
> it.).
> 
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/depot/doc/gettext/gettext_4.html
> describes it though (read about the --keyword option) and the info
> pages has it too.
> 
> Basically just run
> 
> xgettext --keyword=mp_msg:3 --output=/tmp/foo mplayer.c
> 
> and a file with the desired strings will be generated.
> 
> / Fredrik

Thanx a lot, will look into it.

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Anders Rune Jensen
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