Bug 90937

Consider the following languages: cs, de

Consider the following piece of XML:

    <summary>The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller</summary>

Consider the string used in the summary is only translated in cs and remains untranslated in de.

The following command:

    itstool -j file.xml.in -o file.xml locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/openscad.mo locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/openscad.mo

Results in the same file as file.xml.in (no translations).

But when the following order is used instead:

    itstool -j file.xml.in -o file.xml locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/openscad.mo locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/openscad.mo

It provides the following output:

    <summary>The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller</summary>
    <summary xml:lang="openscad">Programátorův modelář pro 3D objekty</summary>

I would like to use this command:

    itstool -j file.xml.in -o file.xml locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/openscad.mo

But the language is always recognized as "openscad", because all the files are named openscad.mo. I also cannot use the -l option, because I'm using the asterisk symbol and I want all the languages to be there.

As a workaround, I can do this:

    for LANGCODE in ...; do
     mv locale/$LANGCODE/LC_MESSAGES/{openscad,$LANGCODE}.mo
    done
    itstool -j file.xml.in -o file.xml ./locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/*.mo
    for LANGCODE in ...; do
     mv locale/$LANGCODE/LC_MESSAGES/{$LANGCODE,openscad}.mo
    done

But I don't like it very much. Is there another solution? Should itstool somehow recognize the languge by the path of this kind? Maybe by giving it a clue with some switch?