Standard gettext PO format

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Monday 02 January 2006 15:11, Chusslove Illich wrote:
> >> [: Chusslove Illich :]
> >> This against letting Gettext handle language fallbacks.
> >
> > [: Nicolas Goutte :]
> > Yes, after  thinking, I thin that  the problem is not really worth the
> > gain of switching to the Gettext runtime.
>
> Darn, after making the point for Gettext resolving language precedence by
> itself, and actually implementing it, I remembered that I absolutely
> positively need to know which language the translation came from, which
> Gettext doesn't provide for.
(...)

> What we should decide now is whether to use the original patched code or
> Gettext code. I preffer the Gettext one: no custom .mo loading and
> searching, plural and context resolution is in complete control of Gettext
> and code is cleaned a lot as result.

I have not looked at the URLs, but I think that if you can use the original 
Gettext (without having a toougly KDE code), then it should be the 
preference.

>
> http://caslav.gmxhome.de/misc/kdecore_p1.patch (patched original)
> http://caslav.gmxhome.de/misc/kdecore_p2.patch (using Gettext)