Comments on: Playing with xgettext

By: godie

godie — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 02:01:30 +0000

thanks, i was generate de pot file for a worpress theme =),

By: Stone Soup of an Online Business » Blog Archive » Multi-lingual Website with Dynamic Content

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:17:51 +0000

[...] we use xgettext and poedit method. When you run xgettext command, it parses only static file, and not the database. [...]

By: India

India — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:46:38 +0000

OK solved. My problem was to find out how to let my editor know I wanted to save in utf-8. (In my version of emacs it’s Mule=>Set coding systems for saving this buffer. Then manually enter utf-8. Seems to do the trick.)

By: India

India — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:39:06 +0000

OK I found the answer here : http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Binaries
It’s msgfmt.
Next glitch–it doesn’t like my octets!

$ msgfmt fr_FR.po
fr_FR.po:51:60: sÃ©quence multi-octets invalide

By: India

India — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:15:41 +0000

Thanks this was exactly what I was looking for. Now how do I make a mo…

By: Karl WÃ¥ngstedt

Karl WÃ¥ngstedt — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:29:42 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting these tips on your site. After trying to get along with Poedit on the mac (and in Windows through Parallels as well) I gave up, and turned to the Terminal.

This is just what I needed to get started. Thanks again!