GetText

GetText: library and tools for native language support

A well integrated set of tools and documentation to help programmers, translators, and users make other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages. The tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organzation for those message catalogs, a runtime library that supports retrieval of translated messages, and a few stand-alone programs to manipulate sets of strings. A special GNU Emacs mode also helps work with these strings. Libintl is a library that provides native language support to programs. It is part of Gettext. •LibIntl-1 is in Gettext-0.10-.. •LibIntl-2 is in Libintl-0.11-.. •LibIntl-3 is in LibIntl-0.14-.. and in Gettext-0.14-.. Development http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gettext.htm gettext

translate message

The gettext program translates a natural language mes- sage into the user's language, by looking up the trans- lation in a message catalog. envsubst

substitutes environment variables in shell

Substitutes the values of environment variables.

Print the machine's hostname.

Filters the messages of a translation catalog according to their attributes,

Concatenates and merges the specified PO files.

By using the --more-than option, greater commonality may be requested before messages are printed. Conversely, the --less-than option may be used to specify less commonality before messages are printed (i.e. --less-than=2 will only print the unique messages). Translations, comments and extract comments will be cumulated, except that if --use-first is specified, they will be taken from the first PO file to define them. File positions from all PO files will be cumulated.

Compare two Uniforum style .po files to check that both contain the same

The def.po file is an existing PO file with the translations. The ref.pot file is the last created PO file, or a PO Template file (generally created by xgettext). This is useful for checking that you have translated each and every message in your program. Where an exact match cannot be found, fuzzy matching is used to produce better diagnostics.

Find messages which are common to two or more of the specified PO files.

By using the --more-than option, greater commonality may be requested before messages are printed. Conversely, the --less-than option may be used to specify less commonality before messages are printed (i.e. --less-than=2 will only print the unique messages). Translations, comments and extract comments will be preserved, but only from the first PO file to define them. File positions from all PO files will be cumulated.

Converts a translation catalog to a different character encoding.

Creates an English translation catalog.

The input file is the last created English PO file, or a PO Template file (generally created by xgettext). Untranslated entries are assigned a translation that is identical to the msgid.

Applies a command to all translations of a translation catalog.

The COMMAND can be any program that reads a translation from standard input. It is invoked once for each translation. Its output becomes msgexec's output. msgexec's return code is the maximum return code across all invocations.

edit translations of message catalog

Applies a filter to all translations of a translation catalog.

Generate binary message catalog from textual translation description.

Extracts all messages of a translation catalog that match a given pattern

Creates a new PO file, initializing the meta information with values from the

Merges two Uniforum style .po files together.

The def.po file is an existing PO file with translations which will be taken over to the newly created file as long as they still match; comments will be preserved, but extracted comments and file positions will be discarded. The ref.pot file is the last created PO file with up-to-date source references but old translations, or a PO Template file (generally created by xgettext); any translations or comments in the file will be discarded, however dot comments and file positions will be preserved. Where an exact match cannot be found, fuzzy matching is used to produce better results.

Convert binary message catalog to Uniforum style .po file.

Unifies duplicate translations in a translation catalog.

Finds duplicate translations of the same message ID. Such duplicates are invalid input for other programs like msgfmt, msgmerge or msgcat. By default, duplicates are merged together. When using the --repeated option, only duplicates are output, and all other messages are discarded. Comments and extracted comments will be cumulated, except that if --use-first is specified, they will be taken from the first translation. File positions will be cumulated. When using the --unique option, duplicates are discarded.

translate message and choose plural form

The ngettext program translates a natural language mes- sage into the user's language, by looking up the trans- lation in a message catalog, and chooses the appropriate plural form, which depends on the number COUNT and the language of the message catalog where the translation was found.

Fetches and outputs the contents of an URL.

If the URL cannot be accessed, the locally accessible FILE is used instead.

extract gettext strings from source

Extract translatable strings from given input files.

initialize a message catalog

Creates a new PO file, initializing the meta information with values from the user's environment.

create English message catalog

Creates an English translation catalog. The input file is the last created English PO file, or a PO Template file (generally created by xgettext). Untranslated entries are assigned a translation that is identical to the msgid.