Re: [XNap-Commons-Devel] extracting untagged strings

[Felix B. <bf...@gm...>]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 18:34, Anna Talis (atalis) wrote:

> A project I'm working on has an existing, not internationalized
> codebase.  We are going to use Gettext Commons in the upcoming release.
> All the new code is supposed to have tr* wrappers in it, but we'll still
> need to deal with the existing code.

Nice. If it's a public project, could we maybe point to it as an example of 
how the Gettext Commons are deployed?

> We need to get a list of unwrapped strings so that we could go through
> the code (automatically or manually) and wrapp those strings.

If you wrap the strings manually, you don't need to extract the unwrapped ones 
beforehand. After you wrapped them with i18n.tr, they can be extracted by 
xgettext. Am I missing something?

> I see 
> that one can extract either all strings (-a option) or tr*-wrapped
> strings (-k*** options).  But is there a way to extract all strings
> *except* those wrapped into the tr* methods?

You could use a couple of regular expressions, or extract all strings with 
xgettext and then extract only the tr() wrapped ones and subtract the latter 
set of strings from the first one. Or maybe you have a point in time in the 
history of your source control system when only unwrapped strings existed?

> Also, do you know of any tools that would help us to wrap unwrapped
> strings automatically?

We still have plans of writing an Eclipse plug-in for this purpose. It would 
make use of the Java Parser of Eclipse to detect the strings and refactor the 
code properly, similar to what "Externalize Strings" does for Eclipse's way 
of i18nizing.

Felix

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