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Asked: 2026-06-16T21:53:27+00:00

By default xgettext will guess file type from its extension. However, I have JavaScript

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By default xgettext will guess file type from its extension. However, I have JavaScript files (with .js extension) which it doesn’t currently understand. So, I have to specify language manually, Java seems like a good choice. But then, I also have Glade files (XML), which obviously cannot be parsed as Java… When I specify multiple --language options on command line, only the last seems to have any effect.

It seems to be a non-issue for projects with file types understood by xgettext (e.g. C and Glade).

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  1. Editorial Team

    It seems that --join-existing option is what I need. I.e. run xgettext separately for each language with the same output file, only adding --join-existing for each but the first. Note that if output file doesn’t have suffix .pot, xgettext will print a (useless) warning about charset.

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