Passing options to `GettextParser.po` compiler in `i18nextToGettext`

Hello, everyone, sorry if this issue was created somewhere, I tried to searching through the list but did not find anything relevant.

The problem I’ve encountered is that when I’m trying to parse json -> po I get the following output of po file:

msgid "Accept offer note"
msgstr ""
"Jetzt bräuchten wir noch ein paar Informationen von Ihnen um die Bestellung "
"abzuschliessen."

whereas expected output would be:

msgid "Accept offer note"
msgstr "Jetzt bräuchten wir noch ein paar Informationen von Ihnen um die Bestellung abzuschliessen."

I’ve dug deep into the library and found out that pocompiler which is used by gettext-parser has a default of 76 foldLength of a string, that’s why you get such result.

It seems that when i18nextToGettext passes the data into parser.compile it is not possible to pass any options for the compiler itself, which imo would be awesome to have! Or at least default foldLength to 0 (disable) because this is, imho, is an opinionated feature.

Or maybe there’s a workaround? Because right now we have a bunch of translation keys which are longer than 76 chars and our translation service does not accept “invalid” po files

Could someone clarify if it’s an issue at all?

[mvirbicianskas]

I see, it’s all very good that it is in the spec (sorry if I came on wrong footing! I’m just not very familiar with the spec), but it would be more awesome to be able to pass options to the parser as well, it’s not even a breaking change, just an optional feature 😉

[perrin4869]

That’s it, that’s all there is to it 😉

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 4:06 PM mvirbicianskas <[e-mail] wrote:

Fantastic! But I’ve never contributed to open source projects yet, I’d be glad to do that, are there any guidelines I should follow? Or just fork it, create upstream, do some changes, push and PR?

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