Clasen: Using modern gettext

At his blog, Matthias Clasen explores the recent enhancements to the the classic GNU gettext utility. Thanks in large part to new maintainer Daiki Ueno, gettext now understands many more file formats—thus enabling developers to easily extract strings from a wide variety of source files for translation. In addition to programming languages, Clasen notes, gettext understands .desktop files, GSettings schemas, GtkBuilder ui files, and Appdata files. "If you don’t want to wait for your favorite format to come with built-in its support, you can also include its files with your application; gettext will look for such files in $XDG_DATA_DIRS/gettext/its/."