gettext @ Savannah: GNU gettext 0.23 released

Download from https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.23.tar.gz

New in this release:

• 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.
  • Desktop: xgettext now produces POT files with correct line numbers.

• 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.

• 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.

Source: Planet GNU