i18n / l10n commands

Posted on November 22, 2006 by Kev

1

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
```