Re: RFE: msgcat - use auxiliary translation

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

Jozef Riha wrote:
> i was wondering where to send request for enhancement for gettext
> utils - hope this is the right place.

Yes, bug-gnu-gettext is the right address.

> what i am looking for is a
> console program that would replace kbabel's function for using
> auxiliary file.
> 
> that said when i have two affine languages, one translated better than
> the other i could combine them so the translation process is smoother.

There will be explicit support for this in the tools in the future. For the
moment, working with the existing tools is also possible:

> msgcat --use-first is rather close to solving this problem,

It sounds what you are looking for is msgmerge with the --compendium
option?
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Compendium

> however what i would need is to
> 1) set fuzzy flag for automated translated msgid

You can do this with msgattrib on the compendium.
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#msgattrib-Invocation

> 2) ignore fuzzy translation strings (this can be easily workarounded
> by removing them from the auxiliary file)

This too can be done by preprocessing the compendium with msgattrib.

Bruno