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Makefile in po/
All files called Rules-* in the po/ directory get appended to
the po/Makefile when it is created. They present an opportunity to
add rules for special PO files to the Makefile, without needing to mess
with po/Makefile.in.in.
GNU gettext comes with a Rules-quot file, containing rules for
building catalogs [email protected] and [email protected]. The
effect of [email protected] is that people who set their LANGUAGE
environment variable to ‘[email protected]’ will get messages with proper
looking symmetric Unicode quotation marks instead of abusing the ASCII
grave accent and the ASCII apostrophe for indicating quotations. To
enable this catalog, simply add [email protected] to the po/LINGUAS
file. The effect of [email protected] is that people who set
LANGUAGE to ‘[email protected]’ will get not only proper quotation
marks, but also the quoted text will be shown in a bold font on terminals
and consoles. This catalog is useful only for command-line programs, not
GUI programs. To enable it, similarly add [email protected] to the
po/LINGUAS file.
Similarly, you can create rules for building message catalogs for the
[email protected] locale – Serbian written with the Latin alphabet –
from those for the sr locale – Serbian written with Cyrillic
letters. See msgfilter Invocation.