MSGMERGE

MSGMERGE

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

NAME

msgmerge - merge two message catalogs

SYNOPSIS

msgmerge [''OPTION''? def.po ref.po

DESCRIPTION

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

-C, --compendium=FILE

additional library of message translations, may be specified more than once

-D, --directory=DIRECTORY

add DIRECTORY to list for input files search

-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

-h, --help

display a help message and exit

-i, --indent

indented output style

-o, --output-file=FILE

result will be written to FILE

--no-location

suppress '#: filename:line' lines

--add-location

preserve '#: filename:line' lines (default)

--strict

strict Uniforum output style

-v, --verbose

increase verbosity level

-V, --version

output version information and exit

-w, --width=NUMBER

set output page width

Merges two Uniforum style .po files together. The def.po file is an existing PO file with the old translations which will be taken over to the newly created file as long as they still match; comments will be preserved, but extract comments and file positions will be discarded. The ref.po file is the last created PO file (generally 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. The results are written to stdout unless an output file is specified.

AUTHOR

Written by Peter Miller.

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), msgfmt(1), xgettext(1)

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.

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