| [8fcc2c0] | 1 | <sect2><title>Contents of Gettext</title>
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| 3 | <para>Last checked against version &gettext-contversion;.</para>
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| [6370fa6] | 4 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 5 | <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
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| 6 | <para>gettext, gettextize, msgcmp, msgcomm, msgfmt, msgmerge, msgunfmt,
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| 7 | ngettext and xgettext</para></sect3>
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| [bdc08c1] | 9 | <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
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| [6370fa6] | 10 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 11 | <sect4><title>gettext</title>
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| [b822811] | 12 | <para>The gettext package is used for internationalization (also known as
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| [6370fa6] | 13 | i18n) and for localization (also known as l10n). Programs can be
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| 14 | compiled with Native Language Support (NLS) which enable them to output
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| [7d90bd3] | 15 | messages in the users native language rather than in the default English
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| [bdc08c1] | 16 | language.</para></sect4>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect4><title>gettextize</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 19 | <para>The gettextize program copies all standard gettext files into a
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| 20 | directory. It's used to make a package with gettext translations.</para></sect4>
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| [bdc08c1] | 21 |
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| 22 | <sect4><title>msgcmp</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 23 | <para>The msgcmp program compares two raw translation files.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 24 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 25 | <sect4><title>msgcomm</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 26 | <para>The msgcomm program searches messages which appear in several .po
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| 27 | files. It's used to compare how things are translated.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 28 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 29 | <sect4><title>msgfmt</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 30 | <para>The msgfmt program compiles raw translation into machine code. It's
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| 31 | used to create the final program/package translation file.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 32 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 33 | <sect4><title>msgmerge</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 34 | <para>The msgmerge program combines two raw translations into one file.
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| 35 | It's used to update the raw translation with the source extract.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 36 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 37 | <sect4><title>msgunfmt</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 38 | <para>The msgunfmt program decompiles translation files into raw
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| 39 | translation text. It can only be used if the compiled versions are
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| 40 | available.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 41 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 42 | <sect4><title>ngettext</title>
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| [2aa1c21] | 43 | <para>The ngettext program displays native language translations of a
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| 44 | textual message whose grammatical form depends on a number.</para></sect4>
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| [53ad30a] | 45 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 46 | <sect4><title>xgettext</title>
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| [921ef9f] | 47 | <para>The xgettext program extracts the message lines from the programmers' C
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| [2aa1c21] | 48 | files. It's used to make the first translation template.</para></sect4>
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| [6370fa6] | 49 |
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| [bdc08c1] | 50 | </sect3>
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| [6370fa6] | 51 |
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| 52 | </sect2>
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