xgettext gives me a strange output for a simple line:

Question

I'm using xgettext to greate a .po file. But it gives me a strange output for a simple line:

<?php echo _("You must click the link to verify your e-mail and activate your account."); ?>

Results in:

msgid ""
"You must click the link to verify your e-mail and activate your account."
msgstr ""

When i remove the - or the dot, everything works fine.

Is there a solution/known bug? I'm really confused :)

Thanks!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 03 '13 at 14:32

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Change the line to this:

<?php echo _("You must click the link to verify your e\-mail and activate your account\."); ?>

and that should escape the characters.

answered May 03 '13 at 14:32

Mike Perrenoud

Yeah of course, but i was looking for an other solution. Just like a flag for the xgettext command to ignore those chars. – Xairoo May 03 '13 at 16:09

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