Gettext/Maintainers-for-other-Languages

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15.4 The Maintainer’s View

For the maintainer, the general procedure differs from the C language case:

• If only a single programming language is used, the XGETTEXT_OPTIONS variable in po/Makevars (see po/Makevars) should be adjusted to match the xgettext options for that particular programming language. If the package uses more than one programming language with gettext support, it becomes necessary to change the POT file construction rule in po/Makefile.in.in. It is recommended to make one xgettext invocation per programming language, each with the options appropriate for that language, and to combine the resulting files using msgcat.