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INTLTOOL-UPDATE
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)Updated: 2003-08-02
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NAME
intltool-update - updates PO template file and merge translations with itSYNOPSIS
intltool-update [option]...intltool-update LANGCODE
DESCRIPTION
intltool-update generates new po file templates from source code, and merges existing translations with these new po templates.You must change working directory to the subdirectory containing translations (usually "po/") before running intltool-update.
OPTIONS
When executing intltool-update , only one mode of operation is allowed each time.Mode of operation
- -p
- --pot
- Generate po template (.pot) only.
- -s
- --headers
- Executes intltool-extract(8) to extract strings inside XML/INI style files listed in POTFILES.in, and writes the extracted strings into header files, so that the strings can be recognised by xgettext(1).
- -m
- --maintain
- Search for left out files, which should have been listed in POTFILES.in or POTFILES.skip. A list of all these files are written into another file called "missing".
- -r
- --report
- Display a status report for all translations in the software.
- -d LANGCODE
- --dist LANGCODE
- Merge LANGCODE.po with existing PO template.
Other options
- -g NAME
- --gettext-package=NAME
- Manually specify PO template file name, instead of determining the name automatically from source. Useful with -p/--pot option. This option has an additional effect: the name of current working directory is no more limited to "po" or "po-*".
- -o FILENAME
- --output-file=FILENAME
- Manually specify output FILENAME after merging old translation with PO template. Useful either with -d/--dist option or without any option.
- -x
- --verbose
- Display lots of feedback.
- --version
- Show version information.
- --help
-
Show usage and basic help information.
EXAMPLES
Creates a new PO template from source code, and name it foo.pot:
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intltool-update --pot --gettext-package=foo
Updates translation file xy.po using existing po template called "bar.pot", and writes output into "xy1.po":
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intltool-update --dist --gettext-package=bar --output-file=xy1.po xy
Creates new PO template and updates translation file xy.po (xy.po is overwritten with new content):
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intltool-update xy
(same as intltool-update --pot && intltool-update --dist xy)
FILES
- po/POTFILES.in
- Contains list of source files which contain translatable strings, one file per line.
- po/POTFILES.skip
- po/POTFILES.ignore (obsolete)
-
Contains list of source files which should be ignored when searching
for translatable strings.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/intltoolAUTHOR
Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com>Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
SEE ALSO
intltoolize(8), intltool-prepare(8), intltool-extract(8), intltool-merge(8), xgettext(1)