poEdit do not find my placeholders' translations

Question

I'm quite new to poEdit, and I'm successfully translating 95% of my keys in my javascript templates and files.

I use this syntax __("key"), mainly <%= __("key") %>.

But (there always is a but), for some reason, this key email in placeholder

enter code here<input type='text' name='username' placeholder='<%= _("email") %>'>

is not parsed with poEdit.

I'm using Python parser; with __ keyword. What did I miss ?

Thanks for you help

Answer 1

Unlike @Vaclav said below, I finally did not rely on xgettext (and its language validation) and made my own parser (just a parser) in PHP.

Here is the open source project, if it could help some of you https://github.com/Wisembly/jsgettext

Best

Answer 2

You say yourself that you use the __ (double underscore) keyword. _ (single underscore) used in your other example is a different identifier, so of course it isn’t found.

As a side note, lying to the tools (be it Poedit or xgettext) about the language (as you do, this is no Python) is bound to cause… interesting… things sooner or later.