Question

As default, xgettext ignores any keyword found within a comment block.

<?php // file.php
echo _('This text will be found');
//_('This text will be ignored');

Is it possible to override this behaviour? I’ve tried by adding //_ as a keyword, but this fails as well. It seems comments have priority over keywords:

xgettext -o output.po --language=PHP -k_ -k//_ file.php

Thanks for help!

Answer 1

It seems, that xgettext filters out comments and i do not know of a way to avoid this. However, as an alternative solution you could just use sed to replace comments before feeding the file to xgettext:

sed 's/\/\/_/_/g' file.php | xgettext -o output.po --language=PHP -