FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

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How do I check a po file?

On the command line, use msgmft, for example, to check the gnome file evolution.HEAD.ar.po:

msgmft -cv -o /dev/null evolution.HEAD.ar.po

Usually, all GUI programs like poeditor and KBabel do that for you, But it's worth checking again. There is also poc, a script written by Djihed to check and commit files to arabeyes cvs with a suitable commit message. Get poc here.

How can I download all po files from Gnome's statistics website?

Use wget, a handly command line utility:

wget -r -N -l 1 --accept *ar.po http://l10n-status.gnome.org/HEAD/PO/

How can I build a compendium of all po files that I have?

On the command line, issue: msgcat -o GNOME-19Jul06-Arabic.compendium *ar.po