NAME¶
msgmerge - merge message catalog and template
SYNOPSIS¶
msgmerge [
OPTION]
def.po ref.pot
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- def.po
- translations referring to old sources
- ref.pot
- references to new sources
- -D, --directory=DIRECTORY
- add DIRECTORY to list for input files search
- -C, --compendium=FILE
- additional library of message translations, may be
specified more than once
Operation mode:¶
- -U, --update
- update def.po, do nothing if def.po already up to date
Output file location:¶
- -o, --output-file=FILE
- write output to specified file
The results are written to standard output if no output file is specified or if
it is -.
Output file location in update mode: The result is written back to def.po.
- --backup=CONTROL
- make a backup of def.po
- --suffix=SUFFIX
- override the usual backup suffix
The version control method may be selected via the
--backup option or
through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values:
- none, off
- never make backups (even if --backup is given)
- numbered, t
- make numbered backups
- existing, nil
- numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise
- simple, never
- always make simple backups
The backup suffix is `~', unless set with
--suffix or the
SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX environment variable.
Operation modifiers:¶
- -m, --multi-domain
- apply ref.pot to each of the domains in def.po
- -N, --no-fuzzy-matching
- do not use fuzzy matching
- --previous
- keep previous msgids of translated messages
- -P, --properties-input
- input files are in Java .properties syntax
- --stringtable-input
- input files are in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax
Output details:¶
- --lang=CATALOGNAME
- set 'Language' field in the header entry
- --color
- use colors and other text attributes always
- --color=WHEN
- use colors and other text attributes if WHEN. WHEN may be
'always', 'never', 'auto', or 'html'.
- --style=STYLEFILE
- specify CSS style rule file for --color
- -e, --no-escape
- do not use C escapes in output (default)
- -E, --escape
- use C escapes in output, no extended chars
- --force-po
- write PO file even if empty
- -i, --indent
- indented output style
- --no-location
- suppress '#: filename:line' lines
- --add-location
- preserve '#: filename:line' lines (default)
- --strict
- strict Uniforum output style
- -p, --properties-output
- write out a Java .properties file
- --stringtable-output
- write out a NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings file
- -w, --width=NUMBER
- set output page width
- --no-wrap
- do not break long message lines, longer than the output
page width, into several lines
- -s, --sort-output
- generate sorted output
- -F, --sort-by-file
- sort output by file location
- -h, --help
- display this help and exit
- -V, --version
- output version information and exit
- -v, --verbose
- increase verbosity level
- -q, --quiet, --silent
- suppress progress indicators
AUTHOR¶
Written by Peter Miller.
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report bugs to <bug-gnu-gettext@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1995-1998, 2000-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License
GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO¶
The full documentation for
msgmerge is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the
info and
msgmerge programs are properly installed at your
site, the command
- info msgmerge
should give you access to the complete manual.
