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INTLTOOL-MERGE
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 2003-08-02
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NAME
intltool-merge - merge translated strings into various types of fileSYNOPSIS
intltool-merge [option]... PO_DIRECTORY FILENAME OUTPUT_FILE
DESCRIPTION
Merge translated strings in po files in PO_DIRECTORY with the original application file FILENAME, and output the file OUTPUT_FILE containing both original and localized strings.
If FILENAME is an XML file, OUTPUT_FILE will contain repeated xml nodes, where each node contains one of the localized strings with "xml:lang" attribute.
OPTIONS
Mode of operation
- -b
- --ba-style
- Merge files in bonobo-activation style, which is used for bonobo servers.
- -d
- --desktop-style
- Merge files in desktop style, which is similar to the Windows .ini file format.
- -k
- --keys-style
- Merge files in keys style, which is used for metadata.
- -o
- --oaf-style
- (OBSOLETE) Same as -b/--ba-style.
- -r
- --rfc822deb-style
- Merge files in RFC 822 style, which is usually used in Debian configuration files.
- --quoted-style
- Merge files in quoted string style, which just translates any strings within "".
- -x
- --xml-style
-
Merge files in standard XML style, both as attributes and as raw pcdata.
Other options
- -u
- --utf8
- Convert all strings to UTF-8 before merging.
- -p
- --pass-through
- Use strings as is in .po files without conversion (STRONGLY unrecommended with -x).
- -c
- --cache
- (TBD)
- -q
- --quiet
- Be quiet while running.
- -v
- --version
- Show version information.
- -h
- --help
-
Show usage and basic help information.
FILES
- po/.intltool-merge-cache
-
Cache file generated by intltool-merge, that contains all strings
in all po files separated by \01.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool
AUTHOR
Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com>Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
SEE ALSO
iconv(1), intltoolize(8), intltool-prepare(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-update(8)