NAME
pocompendium - Create a PO compendium from a directory of PO files.
SYNOPSIS
pocompendium [options] output.po <-d
po-directory(ies)|po-file(s)>
DESCRIPTION
Takes a directory of translated PO files and creates a single PO files
called a PO compendium. This compendium can be used to review word choice
conflicts or as input during a merge using pomigrate(1).
OPTIONS
-v, --invert
swap the msgid and msgstr in the input PO files.
This option requires msghack, which is not distributed in the Debian gettext
package.
-e, --errors
only return those message blocks that have conflicts
-i, --ignore-case
drops all msgstr's to lowercase
-st, -tilde, --strip-accel-amp
remove all & style accelerator markers
-sa, -amp, --strip-accel-tilde
remove all ~ style accelerator markers
-su, --strip-accel-under
remove all _ style accelerator markers
EXAMPLES
Compendium creation
create a compendium with all you translation to use as input during a
message merge either when migrating an existing project or starting a new
one.
Conflicting translations
use
--errors to find where you have translated an English string
differently. Many times this is OK but often it will pick up subtle
spelling mistakes or help you to migrate older translations to a newer
choice of words.
Conflicting word choice
use
--invert and --errors to get a compendium file that
show how you have used a translated word for different English words. You
might have chosen a word that is valid for both of the English expressions
but that in the context of computers would cause confusion for the user.
You can now easily identify these words and make changes in the underlying
translations.
Narrowing Results
PO files treat slight changes in capitalisation, accelerator, punctuation
and whitespace as different translations. In cases 2) and 3) above it is
sometimes useful to remove the inconsistencies so that you can focus on
the errors in translation not on shifts in capitals. To this end you can
use the following: --ignore-case, --strip-accel-amp,
--strip-accel-tilde, --strip-accel-under.
OPERATION
pocompendium makes use of the Gettext tool msgcat(1) to
perform its task. It traverses the PO directories and cat's all found PO
files into the single compendium output file. It then uses
msgattrib(1) to extract only certain messages, msghack to
invert messages and msgfilter(1) to convert messages to lowercase.
BUGS
There are some absolute/relative path name issues.
