xgettext and comments

Django Internals Internationalization
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You’re right, this is even documented as so in https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/xgettext-Invocation.html:

/* This is the first comment.  */
gettext ("foo");

/* This is the second comment: not extracted  */
gettext (
  "bar");

gettext (
  /* This is the third comment.  */
  "baz");

/* This is the fourth comment.  */

So it’s probably broken since 9c19aff7c7561e3a82978a272ecdaad40dda5c00.