[pve-devel] [PATCH proxmox-i18n v2 1/2] makefile: prefer using xgettext over msgcat

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Fri Mar 21 13:36:47 CET 2025


Am 24.01.25 um 15:37 schrieb Maximiliano Sandoval:
> For concatenating .pot files. From [1]:
> 
>> To concatenate POT files, better use xgettext, not msgcat, because
>> msgcat would choke on the undefined charsets in the specified POT
>> files.
> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/msgcat-Invocation.html

Is that actually a problem for us though? FWIW, all our POT files state
`"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"`

Can be fine to do this, but would be nice to know if it actually gives
us any benefits.





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