INTLTOO-MERGE

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 200-0-02
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NAME

intltoo-merge - merge translated strings into various types of file

 

SYNOPSIS

intltoo-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

--b-style

Merge files in bonob-activation style, which is used for bonobo servers.

-d

--deskto-style

Merge files in desktop style, which is similar to the Windows .ini file format.

-k

--key-style

Merge files in keys style, which is used for metadata.

-o

--oa-style

(OBSOLETE) Same as -b/--b-style.

-r

--rfc822de-style

Merge files in RFC 822 style, which is usually used in Debian configuration files.

--quote-style

Merge files in quoted string style, which just translates any strings within "".

-x

--xm-style

Merge files in standard XML style, both as attributes and as raw pcdata.

 

Other options

-u

--utf8

Convert all strings to UT-8 before merging.

-p

--pas-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/.intltoo-merg-cache

Cache file generated by intltoo-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), intltoo-prepare(8), intltoo-extract(8), intltoo-update(8)

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

Mode of operation

Other options

FILES

REPORTING BUGS

AUTHOR

SEE ALSO