Manpages - intltool-merge.8
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NAME
intltool-merge - merge translated strings into various types of file
SYNOPSIS
intltool-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
- –ba-style
Merge files in bonobo-activation style, which is used for bonobo servers.
- -d
- –desktop-style
Merge files in desktop style, which is similar to the Windows .ini file format.
- -k
- –keys-style
Merge files in keys style, which is used for metadata.
- -o
- –oaf-style
(OBSOLETE) Same as -b*/–ba-style*.
- -r
- –rfc822deb-style
Merge files in RFC 822 style, which is usually used in Debian configuration files.
- –quoted-style
Merge files in quoted string style, which just translates any strings within “”.
- -x
- –xml-style
Merge files in standard XML style, both as attributes and as raw pcdata.
Other options
- -u
- –utf8
Convert all strings to UTF-8 before merging.
- -p
- –pass-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/.intltool-merge-cache
- Cache file generated by intltool-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), *intltool-prepare*(8), *intltool-extract*(8), *intltool-update*(8)