gettext: msgcmp Invocation
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1 9.7 Invoking the ‘msgcmp’ Program
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1 msgcmp [OPTION] DEF.po REF.pot
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1 The ‘msgcmp’ program compares two Uniforum style .po files to check
1 that both contain the same set of msgid strings. The DEF.po file is an
1 existing PO file with the translations. The REF.pot file is the last
1 created PO file, or a PO Template file (generally created by
1 ‘xgettext’). This is useful for checking that you have translated each
1 and every message in your program. Where an exact match cannot be
1 found, fuzzy matching is used to produce better diagnostics.
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1 9.7.1 Input file location
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1 ‘DEF.po’
1 Translations.
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1 ‘REF.pot’
1 References to the sources.
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1 ‘-D DIRECTORY’
1 ‘--directory=DIRECTORY’
1 Add DIRECTORY to the list of directories. Source files are
1 searched relative to this list of directories.
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1 9.7.2 Operation modifiers
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1 ‘-m’
1 ‘--multi-domain’
1 Apply REF.pot to each of the domains in DEF.po.
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1 ‘-N’
1 ‘--no-fuzzy-matching’
1 Do not use fuzzy matching when an exact match is not found. This
1 may speed up the operation considerably.
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1 ‘--use-fuzzy’
1 Consider fuzzy messages in the DEF.po file like translated
1 messages. Note that using this option is usually wrong, because
1 fuzzy messages are exactly those which have not been validated by a
1 human translator.
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1 ‘--use-untranslated’
1 Consider untranslated messages in the DEF.po file like translated
1 messages. Note that using this option is usually wrong.
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1 9.7.3 Input file syntax
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1 ‘-P’
1 ‘--properties-input’
1 Assume the input files are Java ResourceBundles in Java
1 ‘.properties’ syntax, not in PO file syntax.
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1 ‘--stringtable-input’
1 Assume the input files are NeXTstep/GNUstep localized resource
1 files in ‘.strings’ syntax, not in PO file syntax.
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1 9.7.4 Informative output
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1 ‘-h’
1 ‘--help’
1 Display this help and exit.
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1 ‘-V’
1 ‘--version’
1 Output version information and exit.
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