[New-bugs-announce] [issue8502] proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs

[jhg]

New submission from jhg <jhg at upb.de>:

Wanting to figure out how to support multiple languages in my applications I read the gettext documentation and got to the part saying one should use pygettext.py to create .po files.

After copying that program from the python SVN repository I later found out that it cannot cope with plurals, i.e. ngettext(). xgettext can do that just fine. Since pygettext.py was not modified in 5 years I propose changing the documentation of gettext to encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py.

My proposed changes are attached (edited as text file; I do not know how to convert it to a webpage and hence did not test that).
I used the 2.7b1 documentation, but the patch appears to apply just as well to the 3.1.2 documentation.

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assignee: georg.brandl
components: Documentation
files: gettext.txt.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 103988
nosy: georg.brandl, jhg
severity: normal
status: open
title: proposal: encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py in gettext docs
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file17048/gettext.txt.patch

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