[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PL_ macro

["Pieter J. Kersten" <kersten@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:

> 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.
>

So? What did he say? It's alright to have only singular forms?

> 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.
>

I tried to use --keyword=PL_:1,2 but to no avail. Still singular only.
I'm no gettext expert, just a translator. Any further help is highly
appreciated.

TIA,
-- 
Pieter J. Kersten
Dutch translator for FreeCiv