Re: "_(" and "N_(" convenience macros not being recognized

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

David Bruce wrote:
> I maintain two packages that use GNU gettext.  In one of the packages,
> I cannot get the suggested convenience string-marking macros to work.
> Text marked with "gettext ("To be translated")" gets handled
> correctly, but text marked with "_("doesn't get translated")" fails to
> be translated.  Similarly, "gettext_noop()" works but not "N_()".

Most probably the 'xgettext' invocation is lacking the options -k_ and
-kN_. See the gettext manual [1][2].

If you are using the common po/* infrastructure that 'gettextize' installs,
the place where you specify the xgettext options is the variable
XGETTEXT_OPTIONS in po/Makevars.

Bruno

[1] 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/xgettext-Invocation.html
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/C.html