MSGFMT

MSGFMT

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

msgfmt - compile message catalogs

SYNOPSIS

msgfmt [''OPTION''? filename.po ...

DESCRIPTION

Generate binary message catalog from textual translation description.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-a, --alignment=NUMBER

align strings to NUMBER bytes (default: 1)

-c, --check

perform language dependent checks on strings

-D, --directory=DIRECTORY

add DIRECTORY to list for input files search

-f, --use-fuzzy

use fuzzy entries in output

-h, --help

display a help message and exit

--no-hash

binary file will not include the hash table

-o, --output-file=FILE

specify output file name as FILE

--statistics

print statistics about translations

--strict

enable strict Uniforum mode

-v, --verbose

list input file anomalies

-V, --version

output version information and exit

Giving the -v option more than once increases the verbosity level.

If input file is -, standard input is read. If output file is -, output is written to standard output.

This package offers to programmers, translators and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation that provides a framework within which other free packages may produce multi-lingual messages.

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1995-1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

gettext(1), msgmerge(1), xgettext(1)

The full documentation for msgfmt is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and msgfmt programs are properly installed at your site, the command info msgfmt should give you access to the complete manual.

On Debian, the manual is also available in HTML format in the gettext-doc package.