Ignore unknown PO flags

[fangly]

I am working with an uncommon programming language, which is not supported by gettext (https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/Translators-for-other-Languages.html#Translators-for-other-Languages). My workflow adds the zoe-format flag to PO messages containing a format string. Here is a PO example:

#, zoe-format
msgid "Hello #{name}"
msgstr "Bonjour #{name}"

I can open the message fine in Poedit 3 (6387) and do not expect Poedit to do anything unusual with it since I am using a non-standard flag. However, when I save the PO file, Poedit strips my flag. I would rather Poedit not to remove it.

I realize some gettext utility may be removing this flag, not Poedit directly. I see value in non-standard flags because they can be used in non-standard workflows to support custom features and uncommon programming languages. To support this flexibility, I am arguing here that Poedit / gettext should merely leave all flags that they do not recognize alone.

[vslavik]

I would rather Poedit not to remove it.

I would prefer that too. This is GNU gettext tools doing it — you need to file a bug report (or much better, a patch) there.

[fangly]

Thanks for the support. I will raise the issue upstream.
Could you clarify, which parts of gettext strip the flags? Is it just one utility or all of them?

[vslavik]

It's pretty much all of them because this handling is present in library code and affects all PO output. msgmerge and msgcat are the tools relevant to Poedit and msgcat is an easy way to reproduce:

msgcat -o- YourPoFileWithNonstandardFlags.po

[fangly]

I raised the issue upstream: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?60947

[vslavik]

Thanks!