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bug #18293: documentation of msggrep and msgfilter

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:54:39 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Doc Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Fix Released
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  haible
Open/Closed:  Closed

Sun 02 Sep 2007 10:49:19 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the suggestion. I've added such examples. You find them
in the CVS at
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/gettext/gettext-tools/doc/msggrep.texi?root=gettext&revision=1.8&content-type=text%2Fplain
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/gettext/gettext-tools/doc/msgfilter.texi?root=gettext&revision=1.7&content-type=text%2Fplain

About the terms "msgid" and "msgstr", I don't agree. These terms
are necessary to describe the behaviour of the tools precisely.
For instance, most tools have input and output, therefore we may
be talking about "the original string in the input file",
"the original string in the output file", "the translated string
in the input file", "the translated string in the output file".
Terms like "the original string" are 3-way ambiguous. Furthermore,
when a message has an empty msgstr, we consider it untranslated.
So "when the translated string is empty, it is untranslated", or
what? It's just too confusing.

Bruno Haible <haible>
Group administrator
Tue 14 Nov 2006 01:54:39 PM UTC, original submission:  

I have tried to find occurrences of a certain string in the translations of a po file with msggrep but did not succeed because I cannot find the correct invocation for that trivial task.

The documentation (manpage and/or info) did not really help here, I am currently inspecting the source code for a hint. An example section in the documentation would be very helpful.

Besides, I think that the terms "msgid" and "msgstr" should be replaced by "original string" and "translation" in the manual page resp. info page.  The tool is useful for translators, and - in the presence of GUI editors for po files that hide the internal format - these ugly acronyms should at least be explained, if not avoided.

I am using msggrep version 0.15.

Cheers,
Guido

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2023-01-04 haible StatusFixed Fix Released
    2016-11-26 haible CategoryNone Doc
    2007-09-30 haible Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2007-09-02 haible StatusNone Fixed
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