From ef6b8140a371547818e5657936265a46f2ead877 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daiki Ueno <ueno@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 19:01:24 +0900
Subject: NEWS: Mention the prefixed comment-tag change

---
 NEWS | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 205f8dc..46455bd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -46,6 +46,17 @@ Version 0.19 - unreleased
   and DIST_DEPENDS_ON_UPDATE_PO, that can be used to adjust the
   behavior of updating PO files on demand.
 
+* xgettext now strips prefixed string before the comment tag.  This is
+  useful to support C-style comment like this:
+
+  /*
+   * TRANSLATORS: first line
+   * second line
+   */
+
+  In this example, the extracted comment does not contain "* " at the
+  beginning of each line.
+
 * libgettextpo library:
   - Memory leak fixes in the PO file parser.
 
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