Useful GNU GetText Utilities

Utilities listed below allow you to handle and work efficiently with PO files:

These tools are especially useful for measuring and improving translation quality.

• poconflicts - extract messages that have conflicting translation
• pofilter - filter PO files to find common errors using a number of tests
• pogrep - find strings in your PO files
• pomerge - merge file extracted using pofilter back into the original files
• porestructure - restructures po files according to poconflict directives

• poterminology - extracts potential terminology from your translation files
• pocount - Count words and strings in PO, XLIFF and other types of translatable files
• podebug - Add debug strings to messages
• posegment - Break a PO or XLIFF files into sentence segments, useful for creating a segmented translation memory
• pocompile - create an MO (Machine Object) file from a PO or XLIFF file
• poswap - uses a translation of another language that you would rather use than English as source language
• poclean - produces a clean file from an unclean file (Trados/Wordfast) by stripping out the tw4win indicators

The scripts are for handling PO files.

• moz-l10n-builder - Create Mozilla XPIs and rebuild Windows installers from existing translations
• phase - Helps manage a project divided into phases of work, including sending, checking, etc
• pocompendium - Creates various types of PO compendium (i.e. combines many PO files into a single PO file)
• pocommentclean - Remove all translator comments from a PO file
• poen - Initialises POT files to English translations
• poglossary - (obsolete; use poterminology instead) Create a glossary of terms from existing po translations
• pomigrate2 - Migrate older PO files to new POT files
• popuretext - Extracts all the source text from a directory of POT files
• poreencode - Converts PO files to a new character encoding
• posplit - Split a PO file into translate, untranslated and fuzzy files