i18n / l10n commands

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  • Check a .po file:
    msgfmt -c -v -o /dev/null file.po
  • Wipe out a .po file and keep only translated messages:
    msgattrib --translated -o cleaned.po messy.po
  • Delete duplicate messages in a .po file:
    msguniq -o no_duplicate.po duplicate_content.po
  • Show differences between two .po files (thanks to Jérome !):
    msgcat -u file1.po file2.po > diff.po
  • Generate a .mo file from a .po file:
    msgfmt -o target.mo source.po
  • If you want to have command-line tools use raw string instead of localized ones, add the following directives to your ~/.bash_profile:
    export LANGUAGE=C
export LANG=C
export LC_MESSAGES=C

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