Re: [bug-gettext] Hardcoded escaping

[Daiki Ueno]

Serj Lavrin <address@hidden> writes:

> ```
> gettext('My magic ain\'t working string')
> ```
> Not big deal — now that works.
> But then comes into play `xgettext`. During extraction `xgettext` will get 
> string as it is — with
> escaped single quote.

For the record, this is not the case.  xgettext recognizes character
escapes and canonicalize strings before writing.  So the output
shouldn't contain escaped single quote:

$ cat a.js
gettext('My magic ain\'t working string')

$ xgettext -L JavaScript --no-location --omit-header -o - a.js
msgid "My magic ain't working string"
msgstr ""

Regards,
-- 
Daiki Ueno