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In PO file for Poedit, How to provide keywords list, so that a comment is automatically extracted for each keyword?

I want to put keywords and comments in my source file.

the keywords documentation for gettext says: if keywordspec is of the form ‘id:argnum...,"xcomment"’, xgettext, when extracting a message from the specified argument strings, adds an extracted comment xcomment to the message.

I couldn't find any samples to help me with this.

This is my X-Pedit-KeywordsList header, 

"X-Poedit-KeywordsList: __;_ex;\n"

And this is a sample line in my php source code:

_ex("unlock_level", "Available at level #.")

I expect the output to be:

# "Available at level #."
msgid "unlock_level"

How should I edit my keywordslist header (and/or the source)?

Solution

  • Poedit supports translator comments. I ended up adding localization keys to my source file like this:

    // TRANSLATORS: "Available at level #."
__("unlock_level")

    And this is what I get in my po file by pressing the update button in Poedit:

    #. TRANSLATORS: "Available at level #."
msgid "unlock_level"