[Kbabel] Full Gettext support in KBabel

[Chusslove Illich]

Hi,


What would it take for KBabel to fully support Gettext PO features? Since 
few days ago, Gettext has full support for what we need in KDE: formal 
contexts (new msgctxt field) and xgettext extractor updated accordingly 
(will also work for overloaded ordinary, context and plural calls). So I 
think there is no reason to fiddle with custom stuff for KDE 4, providing 
that all tools are updated to handle standard Gettext POs, KBabel being 
primary.

I've browsed a bit through KBabel's Gettext import/export code, and 
couldn't find anything explicitly left to be done, but I've been said that 
it doesn't function perfectly. So, is it just buggy, or something else? I 
could devote some time to get these internals done, but not the required 
GUI updates (needed for context), as GUI stuff is out of my comprehension 
currently.

Is there a reason not to go for Gettext's own libgettextpo for 
import/export of PO files?

On a side note, regarding GUI, I am also interested why are the message 
storage specifics left in it? Like escaped characters, non-newline line 
breaks, comments, plurals. It seems to me that it would be better if 
KBabel had a consistent user-side representation, so that it doesn't 
matter what the underlying translation file format is. It should only 
decide which of representation features to use, depending what the loaded 
format supports.

-- 
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
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