[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PL_ macro

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 11:06:02AM +0100, Pieter J. Kersten wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The expansion of the PL_ macro seems to be incorrect. Using
> 
>       make <lang>.pox
> 
> never reveals the plural parts of the texts. This leads to only singular
> texts in the interface which looks rather odd.
> 
> I'm using an unmodified CVS version (latest).
> 
> Please look into this.

From the first email about this topic:

On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:55:19PM +0100, mateusz stefek wrote:
...
> Only singular form from PL_ is put into freeciv.pot and it's ok.

Searching a bit further is looks like gettext 0.10.40 supports an
extended keyword syntax
<http://www.cise.ufl.edu/depot/doc/gettext/gettext_4.html#SEC20> which
may can be used to extract both singular and plural.

        Raimar

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