- xgettext now has a feature to perform syntax checks on msgid, which could enforce common styles of translatable strings, such as to prefer Unicode characters to the corresponding ASCII characters. They can be enabled with
--check option or special "xgettext: " comment in the source code. By default, no syntax checks are enabled.
- msgfilter and msgexec now have an option
--newline, which appends a newline character to filter input and trims it from the filter output. This would allow filter programs to be more POSIX friendly.
- The base Unicode standard is now updated to 8.0.0. This particularly improves "\N{...}" notation handling of xgettext for Perl and Python.
- msginit is now capable of generating "Plural-Forms:" from Unicode CLDR. This feature is still experimental, but you can try it by setting the GETTEXTCLDRDIR environment variable pointing to the the directory where the CLDR archive is extracted. The actual conversion is done by a helper program 'cldr-plural', which can be used as a generic converter and evaluator of CLDR plural forms.
- Programming languages support:
- C++ with KDE: xgettext and msgfmt can now recognize KUIT (KDE User Interface Text) markup. See the documentation section "KUIT Format Strings" for more info.
- C++ with KDE: xgettext now recognizes all default KDE keywords. This removes the need for a long list of
--keyword and --flag options to perform a reasonable extraction.
- Bug fixes:
- xgettext C++11 raw string recognition is now stricter and don't accept unbalanced delimiters.
- Suppress baseless warnings which msgfmt emits when processing a .desktop file.
- xgettext line wrapping behaviour is now consistent between comment lines and non-comment lines.
- Fix msgfilter-7 test failure on some platforms.
- Fix VPATH build.
See also upstream announcement for 0.19.5 and 0.19.5.1.
