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Author jhg
Recipients georg.brandl, jhg
Date 2010-04-23.01:09:46
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Wanting to figure out how to support multiple languages in my applications I read the gettext documentation and got to the part saying one should use pygettext.py to create .po files.

After copying that program from the python SVN repository I later found out that it cannot cope with plurals, i.e. ngettext(). xgettext can do that just fine. Since pygettext.py was not modified in 5 years I propose changing the documentation of gettext to encourage xgettext rather than pygettext.py.

My proposed changes are attached (edited as text file; I do not know how to convert it to a webpage and hence did not test that).
I used the 2.7b1 documentation, but the patch appears to apply just as well to the 3.1.2 documentation.
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2010-04-23 01:10:07jhgsetrecipients: + jhg, georg.brandl
2010-04-23 01:10:07jhgsetmessageid: <1271985007.3.0.675755685137.issue8502@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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