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10.4.1 Extracting Marked Strings
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Once your `awk' program is working, and all the strings have been
marked and you've set (and perhaps bound) the text domain, it is time
to produce translations. First, use the `--gen-pot' command-line
option to create the initial `.pot' file:
$ gawk --gen-pot -f guide.awk > guide.pot
When run with `--gen-pot', `gawk' does not execute your program.
Instead, it parses it as usual and prints all marked strings to
standard output in the format of a GNU `gettext' Portable Object file.
Also included in the output are any constant strings that appear as the
first argument to `dcgettext()' or as the first and second argument to
`dcngettext()'.(1) I18N Example, for the full list of steps to
go through to create and test translations for `guide'.
---------- Footnotes ----------
(1) The `xgettext' utility that comes with GNU `gettext' can handle
`.awk' files.
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