Advice sought for translating manpages

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 10:11:34PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On 2010/9/4 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [...]
> > Unless I'm mistaken, it can't completely replace gettext?  (ie.  it
> > doesn't understand C and _("...") annotations?)
> 
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> AFAICT we never considered languages already supported by xgettext, we
> prefer focusing on areas not covered by xgettext.  And to be honest,
> xgettext does a pretty good job.
> Given the other messages in this thread, it is likely that you ask
> this question in order to have a single POT file.   This is indeed
> something you may want to do, but most of the times, POT file for
> documentation is much larger, and I agree with Piotr that having two
> POT files is a better option then.
> So in short, we do not know yet how to best address this issue, but
> also never found it to be a real problem.

That's fine.  I just meant that po4a is much more sanely usable than
the GNU gettext stuff (that's just so crazy no one wants to touch it),
and if we could replace that with po4a, it'd be even better.  But two
pot files is no problem also.

Rich.

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