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--- intltool-extract.in	2007-02-04 02:52:50.000000000 +1100
+++ teatime-2.8.0-intl/intltool-extract.in	2007-08-17 18:02:38.000000000 +1000
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 ## Release information
 my $PROGRAM      = "intltool-extract";
 my $PACKAGE      = "intltool";
-my $VERSION      = "0.35.0";
+my $VERSION      = "0.36.0";
 
 ## Loaded modules
 use strict; 
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
 sub place_normal {
     $FILE	 = $ARGV[0];
     $OUTFILE     = "$FILE.h";
+
+    my $dirname = dirname ($OUTFILE);
+    if (! -d "$dirname" && $dirname ne "") {
+        system ("mkdir -p $dirname");
+    }
 }   
 
 sub place_local {
@@ -156,7 +161,7 @@
       --type=TYPE   Specify the file type of FILENAME. Currently supports:
                     "gettext/glade", "gettext/ini", "gettext/keys"
                     "gettext/rfc822deb", "gettext/schemas",
-                    "gettext/scheme", "gettext/xml"
+                    "gettext/scheme", "gettext/xml", "gettext/quoted"
   -l, --local       Writes output into current working directory
                     (conflicts with --update)
       --update      Writes output into the same directory the source file 
@@ -212,6 +217,7 @@
     &type_scheme if $gettext_type eq "scheme";
     &type_schemas  if $gettext_type eq "schemas";
     &type_rfc822deb  if $gettext_type eq "rfc822deb";
+    &type_quoted if $gettext_type eq "quoted";
 }
 
 sub entity_decode_minimal
@@ -231,9 +237,9 @@
 
     s/'/'/g; # '
     s/"/"/g; # "
-    s/&/&/g;
     s/&lt;/</g;
     s/&gt;/>/g;
+    s/&amp;/&/g;
 
     return $_;
 }
@@ -242,7 +248,7 @@
 {
     return '\"' if $_ eq '"';
     return '\n' if $_ eq "\n";
-    return '\\' if $_ eq '\\';
+    return '\\\\' if $_ eq '\\';
 
     return $_;
 }
@@ -255,8 +261,11 @@
 
 sub type_ini {
     ### For generic translatable desktop files ###
-    while ($input =~ /^_.*=(.*)$/mg) {
-        $messages{$1} = [];
+    while ($input =~ /^(#(.+)\n)?^_.*=(.*)$/mg) {
+        if (defined($2))  {
+            $comments{$3} = $2;
+        }
+        $messages{$3} = [];
     }
 }
 
@@ -711,6 +720,17 @@
     return @list;
 }
 
+sub type_quoted {
+    while ($input =~ /\"(([^\"]|\\\")*[^\\\"])\"/g) {
+        my $message = $1;
+        my $before = $`;
+        $message =~ s/\\\"/\"/g;
+        $before =~ s/[^\n]//g;
+        $messages{$message} = [];
+        $loc{$message} = length ($before) + 2;
+    }
+}
+
 sub type_glade {
     ### For translatable Glade XML files ###
 
--- intltool-merge.in	2007-02-04 02:52:50.000000000 +1100
+++ teatime-2.8.0-intl/intltool-merge.in	2007-08-17 18:02:47.000000000 +1000
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 ## Release information
 my $PROGRAM = "intltool-merge";
 my $PACKAGE = "intltool";
-my $VERSION = "0.35.0";
+my $VERSION = "0.36.0";
 
 ## Loaded modules
 use strict; 
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
 my $DESKTOP_STYLE_ARG = 0;
 my $SCHEMAS_STYLE_ARG = 0;
 my $RFC822DEB_STYLE_ARG = 0;
+my $QUOTED_STYLE_ARG = 0;
 my $QUIET_ARG = 0;
 my $PASS_THROUGH_ARG = 0;
 my $UTF8_ARG = 0;
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@
  "desktop-style|d" => \$DESKTOP_STYLE_ARG,
  "schemas-style|s" => \$SCHEMAS_STYLE_ARG,
  "rfc822deb-style|r" => \$RFC822DEB_STYLE_ARG,
+ "quoted-style" => \$QUOTED_STYLE_ARG,
  "pass-through|p" => \$PASS_THROUGH_ARG,
  "utf8|u" => \$UTF8_ARG,
  "multiple-output|m" => \$MULTIPLE_OUTPUT,
@@ -91,9 +93,35 @@
 
 my %po_files_by_lang = ();
 my %translations = ();
-my $iconv = $ENV{"ICONV"} || $ENV{"INTLTOOL_ICONV"} || "@INTLTOOL_ICONV@";
+my $iconv = $ENV{"ICONV"} || "iconv";
 my $devnull = ($^O eq 'MSWin32' ? 'NUL:' : '/dev/null');
 
+sub isProgramInPath
+{
+    my ($file) = @_;
+    # If either a file exists, or when run it returns 0 exit status
+    return 1 if ((-x $file) or (system("$file --version >$devnull") == 0));
+    return 0;
+}
+
+sub isGNUGettextTool
+{
+    my ($file) = @_;
+    # Check that we are using GNU gettext tools
+    if (isProgramInPath ($file)) {
+        my $version = `$file --version`;
+        return 1 if ($version =~ m/.*\(GNU .*\).*/);
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+if (! isGNUGettextTool ("$iconv"))
+{
+	print STDERR " *** GNU iconv is not found on this system!\n".
+		     " *** Without it, intltool-merge can not convert encodings.\n";
+	exit;
+}
+
 # Use this instead of \w for XML files to handle more possible characters.
 my $w = "[-A-Za-z0-9._:]";
 
@@ -157,6 +185,14 @@
 	&rfc822deb_merge_translations;
 	&finalize;
 } 
+elsif ($QUOTED_STYLE_ARG && @ARGV > 2) 
+{
+	&utf8_sanity_check;
+	&preparation;
+	&print_message;
+	&quoted_merge_translations;
+	&finalize;
+} 
 else 
 {
 	&print_help;
@@ -193,6 +229,7 @@
   -k, --keys-style       includes translations in the keys style
   -s, --schemas-style    includes translations in the schemas style
   -r, --rfc822deb-style  includes translations in the RFC822 style
+      --quoted-style     includes translations in the quoted string style
   -x, --xml-style        includes translations in the standard xml style
 
 Other options:
@@ -415,7 +452,7 @@
         {
 	    $nextfuzzy = 1 if /^#, fuzzy/;
        
-	    if (/^msgid "((\\.|[^\\])*)"/ ) 
+	    if (/^msgid "((\\.|[^\\]+)*)"/ ) 
             {
 		$translations{$lang, $msgid} = $msgstr if $inmsgstr && $msgid && $msgstr;
 		$msgid = "";
@@ -431,14 +468,14 @@
 		$nextfuzzy = 0;
 	    }
 
-	    if (/^msgstr "((\\.|[^\\])*)"/) 
+	    if (/^msgstr "((\\.|[^\\]+)*)"/) 
             {
 	        $msgstr = unescape_po_string($1);
 		$inmsgstr = 1;
 		$inmsgid = 0;
 	    }
 
-	    if (/^"((\\.|[^\\])*)"/) 
+	    if (/^"((\\.|[^\\]+)*)"/) 
             {
 	        $msgid .= unescape_po_string($1) if $inmsgid;
 	        $msgstr .= unescape_po_string($1) if $inmsgstr;
@@ -483,16 +520,15 @@
     return $string;
 }
 
-## NOTE: deal with < - &lt; but not > - &gt;  because it seems its ok to have 
-## > in the entity. For further info please look at #84738.
 sub entity_decode
 {
     local ($_) = @_;
 
     s/&apos;/'/g; # '
     s/&quot;/"/g; # "
-    s/&amp;/&/g;
     s/&lt;/</g;
+    s/&gt;/>/g;
+    s/&amp;/&/g;
 
     return $_;
 }
@@ -1006,8 +1042,8 @@
 
     if ($MULTIPLE_OUTPUT) {
         for my $lang (sort keys %po_files_by_lang) {
-	    if ( ! -e $lang ) {
-	        mkdir $lang or die "Cannot create subdirectory $lang: $!\n";
+	    if ( ! -d $lang ) {
+	        mkdir $lang or -d $lang or die "Cannot create subdirectory $lang: $!\n";
             }
             open OUTPUT, ">$lang/$OUTFILE" or die "Cannot open $lang/$OUTFILE: $!\n";
             binmode (OUTPUT) if $^O eq 'MSWin32';
@@ -1354,3 +1390,39 @@
     return @list;
 }
 
+sub quoted_translation
+{
+    my ($lang, $string) = @_;
+
+    $string =~ s/\\\"/\"/g;
+
+    my $translation = $translations{$lang, $string};
+    $translation = $string if !$translation;
+
+    $translation =~ s/\"/\\\"/g;
+    return $translation
+}
+
+sub quoted_merge_translations
+{
+    if (!$MULTIPLE_OUTPUT) {
+        print "Quoted only supports Multiple Output.\n";
+        exit(1);
+    }
+
+    for my $lang (sort keys %po_files_by_lang) {
+        if ( ! -d $lang ) {
+            mkdir $lang or -d $lang or die "Cannot create subdirectory $lang: $!\n";
+        }
+        open INPUT, "<${FILE}" or die;
+        open OUTPUT, ">$lang/$OUTFILE" or die "Cannot open $lang/$OUTFILE: $!\n";
+        binmode (OUTPUT) if $^O eq 'MSWin32';
+        while (<INPUT>) 
+        {
+            s/\"(([^\"]|\\\")*[^\\\"])\"/"\"" . &quoted_translation($lang, $1) . "\""/ge;
+            print OUTPUT;
+        }
+        close OUTPUT;
+        close INPUT;
+    }
+}
--- intltool-update.in	2007-02-04 02:52:50.000000000 +1100
+++ teatime-2.8.0-intl/intltool-update.in	2007-08-17 18:02:54.000000000 +1000
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
 ## Release information
 my $PROGRAM = "intltool-update";
-my $VERSION = "0.35.0";
+my $VERSION = "0.36.0";
 my $PACKAGE = "intltool";
 
 ## Loaded modules
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@
 "sheet(?:\\.in)+|".	# ?
 "schemas(?:\\.in)+|".	# GConf specific
 "pong(?:\\.in)+|".	# DEPRECATED: PONG is not used [by GNOME] any longer.
-"kbd(?:\\.in)+";	# GOK specific. 
+"kbd(?:\\.in)+|".	# GOK specific. 
+"policy(?:\\.in)+";	# PolicyKit files
 
 my $ini_support =
 "icon(?:\\.in)+|".	# http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/icon-theme-spec
@@ -90,10 +91,9 @@
 $| = 1;
 
 ## Sometimes the source tree will be rooted somewhere else.
-my $SRCDIR = ".";
+my $SRCDIR = $ENV{"srcdir"} || ".";
 my $POTFILES_in;
 
-$SRCDIR = $ENV{"srcdir"} if $ENV{"srcdir"};
 $POTFILES_in = "<$SRCDIR/POTFILES.in";
 
 my $devnull = ($^O eq 'MSWin32' ? 'NUL:' : '/dev/null');
@@ -124,8 +124,10 @@
 
 &Console_Write_IntltoolHelp if $arg_count > 1;
 
+my $PKGNAME = FindPackageName ();
+
 # --version and --help don't require a module name
-my $MODULE = $GETTEXT_PACKAGE || &FindPackageName || "unknown";
+my $MODULE = $GETTEXT_PACKAGE || $PKGNAME || "unknown";
 
 if ($POT_ARG)
 {
@@ -316,7 +318,8 @@
 	@buf_potfiles_ignore,
 	@buf_allfiles,
 	@buf_allfiles_sorted,
-	@buf_potfiles_sorted
+	@buf_potfiles_sorted,
+        @buf_potfiles_ignore_sorted
     );
 
     ## Search and find all translatable files
@@ -326,7 +329,12 @@
 	push @buf_i18n_ini,          "$File::Find::name" if /\.($ini_support)$/;
 	push @buf_i18n_xml_unmarked, "$File::Find::name" if /\.(schemas(\.in)+)$/;
 	}, "..";
-
+    find sub { 
+	push @buf_i18n_plain,        "$File::Find::name" if /\.($buildin_gettext_support)$/;
+	push @buf_i18n_xml,          "$File::Find::name" if /\.($xml_support)$/;
+	push @buf_i18n_ini,          "$File::Find::name" if /\.($ini_support)$/;
+	push @buf_i18n_xml_unmarked, "$File::Find::name" if /\.(schemas(\.in)+)$/;
+	}, "$SRCDIR/..";
 
     open POTFILES, $POTFILES_in or die "$PROGRAM:  there's no POTFILES.in!\n";
     @buf_potfiles = grep !/^(#|\s*$)/, <POTFILES>;
@@ -342,7 +350,7 @@
     ## comparing with POTFILES.in
     foreach my $ignore ("POTFILES.skip", "POTFILES.ignore")
     {
-	(-s $ignore) or next;
+	(-s "$SRCDIR/$ignore") or next;
 
 	if ("$ignore" eq "POTFILES.ignore")
 	{
@@ -351,7 +359,7 @@
 	}
 
 	print "Found $ignore: Ignoring files...\n" if $VERBOSE;
-	open FILE, "<$ignore" or die "ERROR: Failed to open $ignore!\n";
+	open FILE, "<$SRCDIR/$ignore" or die "ERROR: Failed to open $SRCDIR/$ignore!\n";
 	    
 	while (<FILE>)
 	{
@@ -359,7 +367,7 @@
 	}
 	close FILE;
 
-	@buf_potfiles = (@buf_potfiles_ignore, @buf_potfiles);
+	@buf_potfiles_ignore_sorted = sort (@buf_potfiles_ignore);
     }
 
     foreach my $file (@buf_i18n_plain)
@@ -417,7 +425,7 @@
 		}
 	    }	    
 
-	    if (/\.GetString ?\(QUOTEDTEXT/)
+	    if (/\w\.GetString *\(QUOTEDTEXT/)
 	    {
                 if (defined isNotValidMissing (unpack("x3 A*", $file))) {
                     ## Remove the first 3 chars and add newline
@@ -426,7 +434,8 @@
 		last;
 	    }
 
-	    if (/_\(QUOTEDTEXT/)
+            ## N_ Q_ and _ are the three macros defined in gi8n.h
+	    if (/[NQ]?_ *\(QUOTEDTEXT/)
 	    {
                 if (defined isNotValidMissing (unpack("x3 A*", $file))) {
                     ## Remove the first 3 chars and add newline
@@ -486,6 +495,15 @@
     my %in2;
     foreach (@buf_potfiles_sorted) 
     {
+        s#^$SRCDIR/../##;
+        s#^$SRCDIR/##;
+	$in2{$_} = 1;
+    }
+
+    foreach (@buf_potfiles_ignore_sorted) 
+    {
+        s#^$SRCDIR/../##;
+        s#^$SRCDIR/##;
 	$in2{$_} = 1;
     }
 
@@ -493,9 +511,16 @@
 
     foreach (@buf_allfiles_sorted)
     {
-	if (!exists($in2{$_}))
+        my $dummy = $_;
+        my $srcdir = $SRCDIR;
+
+        $srcdir =~ s#^../##;
+        $dummy =~ s#^$srcdir/../##;
+        $dummy =~ s#^$srcdir/##;
+        $dummy =~ s#_build/##;
+	if (!exists($in2{$dummy}))
 	{
-	    push @result, $_
+	    push @result, $dummy
 	}
     }
 
@@ -504,7 +529,7 @@
     foreach (@buf_potfiles_sorted)
     {
 	chomp (my $dummy = $_);
-	if ("$dummy" ne "" and ! -f "../$dummy")
+	if ("$dummy" ne "" and !(-f "$SRCDIR/../$dummy" or -f "../$dummy"))
 	{
 	    push @buf_potfiles_notexist, $_;
 	}
@@ -537,7 +562,7 @@
 	    warn "\n" if ($VERBOSE or @result);
 	    warn "\e[1mThe following files do not exist anymore:\e[0m\n\n";
 	    warn @buf_potfiles_notexist, "\n";
-	    warn "Please remove them from POTFILES.in or POTFILES.skip. A file \e[1m'notexist'\e[0m\n".
+	    warn "Please remove them from POTFILES.in. A file \e[1m'notexist'\e[0m\n".
 		 "containing this list of absent files has been written in the current directory.\n";
 	}
     }
@@ -555,16 +580,33 @@
     exit 1;
 }
 
-sub GenerateHeaders
+sub isProgramInPath
 {
-    my $EXTRACT = "@INTLTOOL_EXTRACT@";
-    chomp $EXTRACT;
+    my ($file) = @_;
+    # If either a file exists, or when run it returns 0 exit status
+    return 1 if ((-x $file) or (system("$file --version >$devnull") == 0));
+    return 0;
+}
 
-    $EXTRACT = $ENV{"INTLTOOL_EXTRACT"} if $ENV{"INTLTOOL_EXTRACT"};
+sub isGNUGettextTool
+{
+    my ($file) = @_;
+    # Check that we are using GNU gettext tools
+    if (isProgramInPath ($file))
+    {
+        my $version = `$file --version`;
+        return 1 if ($version =~ m/.*\(GNU .*\).*/);
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+sub GenerateHeaders
+{
+    my $EXTRACT = $ENV{"INTLTOOL_EXTRACT"} || "intltool-extract";
 
     ## Generate the .h header files, so we can allow glade and
     ## xml translation support
-    if (! -x "$EXTRACT")
+    if (! isProgramInPath ("$EXTRACT"))
     {
 	print STDERR "\n *** The intltool-extract script wasn't found!"
 	     ."\n *** Without it, intltool-update can not generate files.\n";
@@ -611,13 +653,13 @@
 #
 sub GeneratePOTemplate
 {
-    my $XGETTEXT = $ENV{"XGETTEXT"} || "@INTLTOOL_XGETTEXT@";
+    my $XGETTEXT = $ENV{"XGETTEXT"} || "xgettext";
     my $XGETTEXT_ARGS = $ENV{"XGETTEXT_ARGS"} || '';
     chomp $XGETTEXT;
 
-    if (! -x $XGETTEXT)
+    if (! isGNUGettextTool ("$XGETTEXT"))
     {
-	print STDERR " *** xgettext is not found on this system!\n".
+	print STDERR " *** GNU xgettext is not found on this system!\n".
 		     " *** Without it, intltool-update can not extract strings.\n";
 	exit;
     }
@@ -671,12 +713,8 @@
 	} 
 	else 
 	{
-	    if ($SRCDIR eq ".") {
-	        print OUTFILE "../$_\n";
-	    } else {
-	        print OUTFILE "$SRCDIR/../$_\n";
-	    }
-	    $gettext_code = &TextFile_DetermineEncoding ("../$_") if ($gettext_support_nonascii and not defined $forced_gettext_code);
+            print OUTFILE "$SRCDIR/../$_\n";
+	    $gettext_code = &TextFile_DetermineEncoding ("$SRCDIR/../$_") if ($gettext_support_nonascii and not defined $forced_gettext_code);
 	}
 
 	next if (! $gettext_support_nonascii);
@@ -717,7 +755,23 @@
     unlink "$MODULE.pot";
     my @xgettext_argument=("$XGETTEXT",
 			   "--add-comments",
-			   "--directory\=\.",
+			   "--directory\=.",
+                           "--default-domain\=$MODULE",
+                           "--flag\=g_strdup_printf:1:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_string_printf:2:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_string_append_printf:2:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_error_new:3:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_set_error:4:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_markup_printf_escaped:1:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_log:3:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_print:1:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_printerr:1:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_printf:1:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_fprintf:2:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_sprintf:2:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_snprintf:3:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_scanner_error:2:c-format",
+                           "--flag\=g_scanner_warn:2:c-format",
 			   "--output\=$MODULE\.pot",
 			   "--files-from\=\.\/POTFILES\.in\.temp");
     my $XGETTEXT_KEYWORDS = &FindPOTKeywords;
@@ -784,9 +838,16 @@
 {
     -f "$MODULE.pot" or die "$PROGRAM: $MODULE.pot does not exist.\n";
 
-    my $MSGMERGE = $ENV{"MSGMERGE"} || "@INTLTOOL_MSGMERGE@";
+    my $MSGMERGE = $ENV{"MSGMERGE"} || "msgmerge";
     my ($lang, $outfile) = @_;
 
+    if (! isGNUGettextTool ("$MSGMERGE"))
+    {
+	print STDERR " *** GNU msgmerge is not found on this system!\n".
+		     " *** Without it, intltool-update can not extract strings.\n";
+	exit;
+    }
+
     print "Merging $SRCDIR/$lang.po with $MODULE.pot..." if $VERBOSE;
 
     my $infile = "$SRCDIR/$lang.po";
@@ -827,7 +888,14 @@
 sub Console_Write_TranslationStatus
 {
     my ($lang, $output_file) = @_;
-    my $MSGFMT = $ENV{"MSGFMT"} || "@INTLTOOL_MSGFMT@";
+    my $MSGFMT = $ENV{"MSGFMT"} || "msgfmt";
+
+    if (! isGNUGettextTool ("$MSGFMT"))
+    {
+	print STDERR " *** GNU msgfmt is not found on this system!\n".
+		     " *** Without it, intltool-update can not extract strings.\n";
+	exit;
+    }
 
     $output_file = "$SRCDIR/$lang.po" if ($output_file eq "");
 
@@ -836,7 +904,14 @@
 
 sub Console_Write_CoverageReport
 {
-    my $MSGFMT = $ENV{"MSGFMT"} || "@INTLTOOL_MSGFMT@";
+    my $MSGFMT = $ENV{"MSGFMT"} || "msgfmt";
+
+    if (! isGNUGettextTool ("$MSGFMT"))
+    {
+	print STDERR " *** GNU msgfmt is not found on this system!\n".
+		     " *** Without it, intltool-update can not extract strings.\n";
+	exit;
+    }
 
     &GatherPOFiles;
 
@@ -924,13 +999,13 @@
 
 	    $conf_in || die "Cannot find top_builddir in Makevars.";
 	}
-	elsif (-f "../configure.ac") 
+	elsif (-f "$SRCDIR/../configure.ac") 
 	{
-	    $conf_in = "../configure.ac";
+	    $conf_in = "$SRCDIR/../configure.ac";
 	} 
-	elsif (-f "../configure.in") 
+	elsif (-f "$SRCDIR/../configure.in") 
 	{
-	    $conf_in = "../configure.in";
+	    $conf_in = "$SRCDIR/../configure.in";
 	} 
 	else 
 	{