Built PO file generates wrong comments

[niksauer]

Describe the bug The output PO file has comments with a leading period:

#. Your free trial will end on August 6th and will not renew.
#: src/components/routes/billing/Status/Status.tsx:56
msgid "and will not renew."
msgstr ""

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior, possibly with minimal code sample, e.g:

import { t } from "@lingui/macro"

const renewLabel = t({
        message: ` and will not renew.`,
        comment: 'Your free trial will end on August 6th and will not renew.',
})

Expected behavior The output Po file should use standard comments:

# Your free trial will end on August 6th and will not renew.
#: src/components/routes/billing/Status/Status.tsx:56
msgid "and will not renew."
msgstr ""

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

• jsLingui version 3.13.2
• react-scripts version 4.0.3

[semoal]

Hm, that's strange yep, will take a look

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[ScriptedAlchemy]

im also running into this issue with next.js based applications (Still using babel)

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[Martin005]

Hello @niksauer 🙂 According to the documentation of PO format, a line starting with # is a translator comment which is created and maintained exclusively by the translator.

A line starting with #. is a comment given by the programmer, directed at the translator.

So our output conforms to the PO format specification.

However, the current behaviour is not consistent with our documentation. I have created a pull request #1337 that fixes the documentation 🙂