php-i18n Digest 26 Oct 2006 08:50:37 -0000 Issue 336
Topics (messages 1027 through 1027):
xgettext & multiline string literals
1027 by: Georg.Steffers.aschendorff.de
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First of all hello to this list!
I am searching for this quite some time, but still could not find any
answer.
I use gettext in my C programs with no problems some time now. So
I decided to do the same with my web projects.
It was a nearly painless start, with only one exception. I am not able
to use multiline string literals for slightly longer texts in PHP.
In C i can use the following:
_("This is just a slightly longer "
"text for demontration purpose");
To split one long string into (what i called) a multiline string literal.
This
works perfectly, at least with gcc and xgettext does extract the whole
string (both lines) as a key.
In PHP this is not possible at all because it simply does not allow this
syntactically.
So i tried the following in PHP:
_("This is just a slightly longer " .
"text for demontration purpose");
But that is not understood by xgettext. The .po file does only
contain the first row of the string as a key.
Has anyone any solution for this?
Best regards
Georg Steffers
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