Re: [patch] i18n, l10n, gettext and something more

[Marius Vollmer]

Daniel Skarda <address@hidden> writes:

> I think that (i18n gettext) module (bindings for C functions from
> GNU gettext library) can/should go into 1.6 release. It does not/can
> not break anything and 1.8 is too far away and inclusion of gettext
> bindings would allow scheme users to i18n their projects now.

What about distributing the module in a separate package until 1.8?
 
>  As for scripts/xgettext - it utilises read extensions, because I think that:
> 
>   * extracted strings in .PO file should look like strings in .scm
>   sources - so if there is \t in .scm file there should be \t in .po
>   file and not " ".

This looks more like a problem of properly writing the .PO file to me,
than like a problem reading the Scheme source.