(gettext.info)Maintainers for other Languages

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15.4 The Maintainer’s View
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   For the maintainer, the general procedure differs from the C language
case in two ways.

   • For those languages that don’t use GNU gettext, the ‘intl/’
     directory is not needed and can be omitted.  This means that the
     maintainer calls the ‘gettextize’ program without the ‘--intl’
     option, and that he invokes the ‘AM_GNU_GETTEXT’ autoconf macro via
     ‘AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])’.

   • If only a single programming language is used, the
     ‘XGETTEXT_OPTIONS’ variable in ‘po/Makevars’ (Note: po/Makevars)
     should be adjusted to match the ‘xgettext’ options for that
     particular programming language.  If the package uses more than one
     programming language with ‘gettext’ support, it becomes necessary
     to change the POT file construction rule in ‘po/Makefile.in.in’.
     It is recommended to make one ‘xgettext’ invocation per programming
     language, each with the options appropriate for that language, and
     to combine the resulting files using ‘msgcat’.