probably have to resurrect the old xml-i18n-tools package:
Version 0.32.1
* Deprecate --pass-through option, default to UTF-8 for anything
except RFC822 files
-- bug #145017 (Danilo Segan)
* Add support for .icon files
-- bug #157412 (Takao Fujiwara, Rodney Dawes)
Version 0.32
* Check to avoid whining about {arch} and $PACKAGE-$VERSION dist directories
when looking for files missing from POTFILES.in
-- bug #157278 (Rodney Dawes)
* Deprecate AC_PROG_INTLTOOL for IT_PROG_INTLTOOL
-- bug #151508 (Rodney Dawes)
* Add new INTLTOOL_XML_NOMERGE_RULE for translating XML files without
merging the translations back into the output XML file
-- bug #155842 (Rodney Dawes)
* Fix new Makefile.in.in stuff to work with automake 1.4
-- bug #157298 (Rodney Dawes)
* Update I18N-HOWTO for the changes to use our own Makefile.in.in
-- bug #79598 (Rodney Dawes)
* Allow use of either AM_GNU_GETTEXT or AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT and use our
own Makefile.in.in instead of trying to patch one
-- bug #144715 (Rodney Dawes)
* Handle all supported gettext escape sequences in PO files
-- bug #48489 (Danilo Segan)
* Fix Scheme string extraction, add support for translators' comments
-- bug #137029 (Danilo Segan)
* Fix translations of attributes of XML elements
-- bug #155843 (Danilo Segan)
* Support for translators' comments in Glade files
-- bug #155294 (Danilo Segan)
* Fix paths and quoting for intltool script variables in intltool.m4
-- bug #154717 (James Henstridge, Rodney Dawes)
* Fix merging of xml:space="preserve" tags
-- bug #151017 (Danilo Segan).
* Look for Q_() keyword as well
-- bug #154063 (Danilo Segan).
utility to obsolete the standalone xml-i18n-tools package.
Changes since 0.30:
* Usage of [no-xml] option in AC_PROG_INTLTOOL to avoid requiring
XML::Parser Perl module. (Rodney Dawes)
* Support for C#. (Rodney)
* Support for running intltool-update without autoconf, or with
po/Makevars file (as used in gettext). (Danilo Segan)
* New XML merging (compatible with pre-0.27.2 intltool) -- bug
#130802 -- entity decoding and encoding is not done anymore for
XML. (Danilo)
* Multiple-output XML merging now produces simpler files, and sets
"xml:lang" only when translation is used -- bug #46650. (Danilo)
* Support for passing comments to translators from XML and GConf
schema files. (Danilo)
* Many bug fixes (Rodney, Danilo, Callum McKenzie)
Approved by wiz@.
Changes since 0.28:
Version 0.30
* added missing [] quotation macro name defined in AC_DEFUN()
(Tomasz Kloczko)
* Handle embedded newlines thereby avoiding the silent corruption of
files. (Morten Welinder)
* Now intltool-merge does not compress whitespace in attributes
and CDATA. (Brian Cameron)
* Now intltool-merge supports dashes in attribute names, and supports
attributes delimited by single quotes. (Brian Cameron)
* Misc small fixes (Kenneth Chr., Danilo Segan)
Version 0.29
* Removed OrigTree in favor of more simply setting handlers directly
in intltool-merge (Brian Cameron)
* Work correctly with AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (Thomas Vander Stichele,
Chee Bin HOH and Kees Cook)
* Make intltoolize return a correct exit status (Thomas Vander Stichele)
* Fix usage of a bash-ism (Morten Welinder, Jonathan Blandford)
* Translate GenericName in .desktop files (Kenneth Rohde Christiansen)
* Framework to allow each format have inline comments (Denis Barbier)
* Add $XGETTEXT_ARGS to allow passing extra args to xgettext (Danilo Segan)
* Added support for .kbd files (Kenneth Rohde Christiansen)
* Add $XGETTEXT_KEYWORDS to allow the use of other keywords (Danilo Segan)
* Misc bug fixes (Noah Levitt, Tommi Komulainen)
* made intltool-merge use XML::Parser (#116526 and others) [Brian Cameron]
- added and updated tests
- updated so that intltool-merge doesn't add a trailing '\n'
character to CDATA values.
- Corrected the logic of encoding/decoding the string
before/after translation.
- Added it to build, made it install (Kenneth Christiansen)
- Added missing DESTDIR (Abel Cheung)
- Also nstall OrigTree.pm in the distribution tree (Malcolm Tredinnick)
- Check for the XML::Parser module at build time (Malcolm Tredinnick)
* Added INTLTOOL_KBD_RULE for GOK\s *.kdb files (Bill Haneman)
* Added --multiple-output option (Kenneth Christiansen)
* Avoid bashism in xgettext version check. (#120267) (Abel Cheung)
* Handle standard GNU gettext 0.12 and 0.13 installations (Malcolm Tredinnick)
* Fix the running of test 18 (multiple output test) (Malcolm Tredinnick)
- Fixed .xam support (Abel Cheung)
- Fixed intltool-update, it's not usable with 0.27 :-( (Carlos Perelló Marín)
- intltool-update -m tells you about files that are at POTFILES.in but does not
exists anymore (Abel Cheung)
- Small scheme support fixes (Callum McKenzie)
- Added support for .lang files (Gustavo Giraldez)
- Added support for .xam files (Abel Cheung)
- Updated I18N-HOWTO (Kenneth, Bruno Haible)
- Updated all manual pages and command help (Abel Cheung)
- Improved the package name detection code (Abel Cheung)
- better .server files handling (Abel Cheung)
- source code with non-ASCII chars support with
GNU gettext 0.12 (bug #99005, Abel Cheung, Carlos Perelló Marín)
- intltool-unicodify is deprecated, please use msgconv (Abel Cheung)
- Handle no translations in get_newest_po_age (Rodney Dawes)
- Cleaned up tests and fixed few bugs (Kenneth)
- Send error messages to stderr, and fix other similar bugs (bug #105013,
Denis Barbier)
- handle using a different output file. (James Henstridge)
- Correct the invocation of INTLTOOL_MERGE. (bug #106898, Malcolm Tredinnick)
- Extract attributes in XML when there are spaces arount the equal sign
(Alberto Manuel Brand?o Sim?es)
- use iconv -f, instead of iconv --f (bug #105181, Hidetoshi Tajima)
- Added variable substitution. (Kenneth)
- Added small section for packages not using the aufo* tools (Kenneth)
- Call msgmerge with options before non-options to fix potential non-GNU
getopt issues. (Gregory Stark, Jordi Mallach)
- Make it work when running an UTF-8 locale (Kenneth)
- Fix some iconv/charset issues (bug #113121, Morten Welinder)
Version 0.25
* support latest version of Makefile.in.in from glib-gettextize
from glib >= 2.1.5 (Frederic Crozat)
Version 0.24
* strip the hints from POTFILES.in in -M mode. (Yanko Kaneti)
* Don't generate .h.h lines in the POTFILES.in
for xgettext when the input file line is from a known type and also has
the [type: gettext/..] hint. (Yanko Kaneti)
* Fix xml-i18n-tools part to work with new gettext 4 (Yanko Kaneti)
* Fixed#96169 (Kenneth, Laurent Vivier and Morten Welinder)
* Added a new .theme.in -> .theme rule (Jonathan Blandford, Glynn Foster)
Version 0.23
* gettextize 4.x work (Kenneth).
* Build system fixes (Kenneth).
* Recognise the "xml:space" attribute and preserve whitespace
if set to "preserve" (Mark McLoughlin).
* GConf schemas handling changes as described in bug #94611. (Yanko).
* Added support for rfc822deb format (Denis Barbier).
* Use charset.alias if available (Denis Barbier, Jacob Berkman).
* Add support for 'default' tags #89747 (Kenneth).
* Spec file cleanup #48446. (Gregory Leblanc).
* Hardcode aclocal-1.4/automake-1.4 so that users with both automake 1.6
and 1.4 installed get the right automake. (Havoc).
* Other bugfixes (Kjartan Maraas).
Version 0.22
* Added support for translation of descriptions used by ATK in glade files
(Kenneth).
* Made schemas extraction code more bulletproof (Kenneth).
* Force intltool-update to exit if POTFILES.in is not found (Abel Cheung).
* Add detection of glade2 files in -m mode (Abel Cheung).
Version 0.21
* Use $srcdir in the version check (Mark McLoughlin)
Version 0.20
* Added support for .schemas files (Kenneth)
Version 0.19
* A few .m4 fixes (Jacob Berkman)
* Now works with configure.ac (Kenneth, Abel Cheung)
