Question

Does gettext have a way to warn me about strings that have not been wrapped in _() or N_()?

Basically is there a way to get a list of all strings that do NOT match the keywords used by xgettext. So, I want:

! xgettext source_code

Answer from the gettext mailing list:

1. Run xgettext once, without –extract-all, to get the normal POT file.
2. Run xgettext with –extract-all, to get all strings.
3. Run “msgcomm –less-than=2” on the two POT files, to get the difference,
   and see whether the output is empty.
   You can use option –force-po to
   force an empty POT file even if both
   inputs are the same.

— Bruno Haible

Answer 1

You could compare the output with and without the --extract-all flag…