Re: [LFS Trac] #5603: gettext-0.23

#5603: gettext-0.23
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  12.3
Component:  Book         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Bruce Dubbs):

 Version 0.23 - December 2024

 - Internationalized data formats:
   * XML:
     - The escaping of characters such as & < > has been changed:
       - No escaping is done any more by xgettext, when creating a POT
 file.
       - Instead, extra escaping can be requested for the msgfmt pass, when
         merging into an XML file.
       - The default value of 'escape' in the <gt:escapeRule> was "yes";
         now it is "no".
       This means that existing translations of older POT files may no
 longer
       fully apply. As a maintainer of a package that has translatable XML
 files,
       you need to regenerate the POT file and pass it on to your
 translators.
     - XML schemas for .its and .loc files are now provided.
     - The value of the xml:lang attribute, inserted by msgfmt, now
 conforms
       to W3C standards.
     - 'msgfmt --xml' accept an option --replace-text, that causes the
 output
       to be a mono-lingual XML file instead of a multi-lingual XML file.
     - xgettext and 'msgfmt --xml' now support DocBook XML files.

 - Programming languages support:
   * Python:
     - xgettext now assumes source code for Python 3 rather than Python 2.
       This affects the interpretation of escape sequences in string
 literals.
     - xgettext now recognizes the f-string syntax.
   * Scheme:
     - xgettext now supports the option '-L Guile' as an alternative to
       '-L Scheme'.  They are nearly equivalent.  They differ in the
       interpretation of escape sequences in string literals: While
       'xgettext -L Scheme' assumes the R6RS and R7RS syntax of string
 literals,
       'xgettext -L Guile' assumes the syntax of string literals understood
 by
       Guile 2.x and 3.0 (without command-line option '--r6rs' or '--r7rs',
 and
       before a '#!r6rs' directive is seen).
     - xgettext now recognizes comments of the form '#; <expression>'.
   * Java: xgettext now has an improved recognition of format strings when
 the
     String.formatted method is used.
   * JavaScript:
     - xgettext now parses template literals inside JSX correctly.
     - xgettext has a new option --tag that customizes the behaviour of
 tagged
       template literals.
   * C#:
     - The build system and tools now also support 'dotnet' (.NET) as C#
       implementation.  In order to declare a preference for 'dotnet' over
       'mono', you can use the configure option '--enable-csharp=dotnet'.
     - xgettext now recognizes strings with embedded expressions (a.k.a.
       interpolated strings).
   * awk: xgettext now recognizes string concatenation by juxtaposition.
   * Smalltalk: xgettext now recognizes the string concatenation operator
 ','.
   * Vala: xgettext now has an improved recognition of format strings when
 the
     string.printf method is used.
   * Glade: xgettext has improved support for GtkBuilder 4.
   * Tcl: With the recently released Tcl 9.0, characters outside the
 Unicode BMP
     in Tcl message catalogs (.msg files) will work regardless of the
 locale's
     encoding.
   * Perl:
     - xgettext now reports warnings instead of fatal errors.
     - xgettext now recognizes strings with embedded expressions (a.k.a.
       interpolated strings).
   * PHP:
     - xgettext now recognizes strings with embedded expressions.
     - xgettext now scans Heredoc and Nowdoc strings correctly.
     - xgettext now regards the format string directives %E, %F, %g, %G,
 %h, %H
       as valid.
   * Desktop: xgettext now produces POT files with correct line numbers.

 - Runtime behaviour:
   * In the C.UTF-8 locale, like in the C locale, the *gettext() functions
     now return the msgid untranslated. This is relevant for GNU systems,
     Linux with musl libc, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Cygwin, and Android.

 - Documentation:
   * The section "Preparing Strings" now gives more advice how to deal with
     string concatenation and strings with embedded expressions.

 - xgettext:
   * Most of the diagnostics emitted by xgettext are now labelled as
     "warning" or "error".

 - msgmerge:
   * The option '--sorted-output' is now deprecated.

 - libgettextpo library:
   * This library is now multithread-safe.
   * The function 'po_message_set_format' now supports resetting a format
 string
     mark.
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