Errantly finding translation keys in markdown about rails HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi Woody,

Thanks for reporting that ;-) It's a quite special case : Markdown inside HAML :-p

We are using this monstrous regex to extract GetText strings from HAML/SLIM :
https://github.com/aurels/translation-gem/blob/master/lib/translation_io/extractor.rb

We support this syntax for GetText (without parentheses) : _ "Hello" and that's what's clashing with Markdown's underscore. As you noticed.

We don't see a proper solution to that because it's a mix of two languages in the same file. Do you ?

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I'll have to think about it. My editor, for example, applies markdown styling (and CSS, JavaScript, etc) for those content blocks inside HAML. Maybe the "language inside a language" is not impossible, but just prohibitively expensive.

Worth noting that even plain HTML or ERB files can include inline styles and javascript, and ex. React and friends are moving towards packaging functionality rather than languages (lending itself to multiple languages in the same file).

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Hi Woody,

The monstrous regexp we use is in fact a hack we need to use because of a limitation of Gettext. It should be able to parse everything correctly but in some case (RB files generated by HAML, per exemple), it is not able to find gettext expressions inside of interpolations (something like "#{_('hello')}"). And, bad news for us, it's exactly how RB files are generated from HAML.

We can continue to optimize our "hack" but there always will be some limitation. I guess the only solution is to update Gettext with another parser like it's suggested here: ruby-gettext/gettext#42 and here: ruby-gettext/gettext#4

But it's not something trivial like you could guess :p

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OK! Thanks for considering it.

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