[bug-gettext] Raw C++ strings...

[Victor Khimenko]

Is it possible to somehow teach xgettext to accept multiline strings? It looks like a good way to handle long messages in C++, but I can not understand how to teach gettext to accept them.

Here is simple example:

$ cat test.C

constexpr const char *N_(const char *s) { return s; }

const char *help_string = N_(R"END(Here is long, long

multiline help text.)END");

GCC accepts is just fine:

$ gcc -std=c++0x -S test.C -o-

.file "test.C"

.globl help_string

.section .rodata

.align 8

.LC0:

.string "Here is long, long\nmultiline help text."

.data

.align 8

.type help_string, @object

.size help_string, 8

help_string:

.quad .LC0

.ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.6.2"

.section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

But gettext loses part of the text:

$ xgettext -kN_ test.C -o-

test.C:3: warning: unterminated string literal

test.C:4: warning: unterminated string literal

# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.

# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER

# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.

# FIRST AUTHOR <address@hidden>, YEAR.

#

#, fuzzy

msgid ""

msgstr ""

"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"

"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"

"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-12-24 22:55+0400\n"

"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"

"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <address@hidden>\n"

"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <address@hidden>\n"

"Language: \n"

"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"

"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=CHARSET\n"

"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"

#: test.C:3

msgid "END(Here is long, long"

msgstr ""

Perhaps I need to specify some option?