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<div class="section" id="po2ini">
<span id="ini2po"></span><span id="id1"></span><h1>ini2po<a class="headerlink" href="#po2ini" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Converts .ini files to Gettext PO format.</p>
<div class="section" id="usage">
<span id="ini2po-usage"></span><h2>Usage<a class="headerlink" href="#usage" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ini2po [options] <ini> <po>
po2ini [options] -t <ini> <po> <ini></pre>
</div>
<p>Where:</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="15%" />
<col width="85%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="row-odd"><td><ini></td>
<td>is a valid .ini file or directory of those files</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><po></td>
<td>is a directory of PO or POT files</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Options (ini2po):</p>
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="option" />
<col class="description" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--version</span></kbd></td>
<td>show program’s version number and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-h</span>, <span class="option">--help</span></kbd></td>
<td>show this help message and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--manpage</span></kbd></td>
<td>output a manpage based on the help</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--progress=<var>PROGRESS</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>show progress as: <a class="reference internal" href="option_progress.html"><em>dots, none, bar, names, verbose</em></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--errorlevel=<var>ERRORLEVEL</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>show errorlevel as: <a class="reference internal" href="option_errorlevel.html"><em>none, message, exception,
traceback</em></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-i <var>INPUT</var></span>, <span class="option">--input=<var>INPUT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>read from INPUT in php format</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-x <var>EXCLUDE</var></span>, <span class="option">--exclude=<var>EXCLUDE</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-o <var>OUTPUT</var></span>, <span class="option">--output=<var>OUTPUT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>write to OUTPUT in po, pot formats</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-t <var>TEMPLATE</var></span>, <span class="option">--template=<var>TEMPLATE</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>read from TEMPLATE in php format</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--psyco=<var>MODE</var></span></kbd></td>
<td>use psyco to speed up the operation, modes: <a class="reference internal" href="option_psyco.html"><em>none,
full, profile</em></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-P</span>, <span class="option">--pot</span></kbd></td>
<td>output PO Templates (.pot) rather than PO files (.po)</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--duplicates=<var>DUPLICATESTYLE</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>what to do with duplicate strings (identical source
text): <a class="reference internal" href="option_duplicates.html"><em>merge, msgctxt</em></a>
(default: ‘msgctxt’)</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Options (po2ini):</p>
<table class="docutils option-list" frame="void" rules="none">
<col class="option" />
<col class="description" />
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--version</span></kbd></td>
<td>show program’s version number and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">-h</span>, <span class="option">--help</span></kbd></td>
<td>show this help message and exit</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--manpage</span></kbd></td>
<td>output a manpage based on the help</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--progress=<var>PROGRESS</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>show progress as: <a class="reference internal" href="option_progress.html"><em>dots, none, bar, names, verbose</em></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">--errorlevel=<var>ERRORLEVEL</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>show errorlevel as: <a class="reference internal" href="option_errorlevel.html"><em>none, message, exception,
traceback</em></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-i <var>INPUT</var></span>, <span class="option">--input=<var>INPUT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>read from INPUT in po, pot formats</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-x <var>EXCLUDE</var></span>, <span class="option">--exclude=<var>EXCLUDE</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-o <var>OUTPUT</var></span>, <span class="option">--output=<var>OUTPUT</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>write to OUTPUT in php format</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group" colspan="2">
<kbd><span class="option">-t <var>TEMPLATE</var></span>, <span class="option">--template=<var>TEMPLATE</var></span></kbd></td>
</tr>
<tr><td> </td><td>read from TEMPLATE in php format</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--psyco=<var>MODE</var></span></kbd></td>
<td>use psyco to speed up the operation, modes: <a class="reference internal" href="option_psyco.html"><em>none,
full, profile</em></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--fuzzy</span></kbd></td>
<td>use translations marked fuzzy</td></tr>
<tr><td class="option-group">
<kbd><span class="option">--nofuzzy</span></kbd></td>
<td>don’t use translations marked fuzzy (default)</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="formats-supported">
<span id="ini2po-formats-supported"></span><h2>Formats Supported<a class="headerlink" href="#formats-supported" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>INI files need to be organized into separate languages per file and in the
following format:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[Section]
; a comment
a = a string</pre>
</div>
<p>Comment marked with the hash symbol (#) are also allowed, and the colon (:) is
also accepted as key-value delimiter:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[Section]
# another comment
b : a string</pre>
</div>
<p>This variants in comment marks and key-value delimiters can be mixed in one
single INI file:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>[Section]
; a comment
a = a string
# another comment
b : a string
c:'other example with apostrophes'
d:"example with double quotes"</pre>
</div>
<p>The spacing between the key-value delimiter and the key, and the between the
value and the key-value delimiter is not important since the converter
automatically strips the blank spaces.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">A section must be present at the file beginning in order to get
ini2po working properly. You may add it by hand at the file beginning.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Strings marked with double quotes and/or apostrophes will carry
these quotation marks to the generated .po file, so they will appear like:</p>
<div class="last highlight-po"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kd">#: [Section]c</span>
<span class="nv">msgid</span> <span class="s">"'other example with apostrophes'"</span>
<span class="nv">msgstr</span> <span class="s">""</span>
<span class="kd">#: [Section]d</span>
<span class="nv">msgid</span> <span class="s">"\"example with double quotes\""</span>
<span class="nv">msgstr</span> <span class="s">""</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="examples">
<span id="ini2po-examples"></span><h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This example looks at roundtrip of .ini translations as well as recovery of
existing translations.</p>
<p>First we need to create a set of POT files.</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ini2po -P ini/ pot/</pre>
</div>
<p>All .ini files found in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ini/</span></tt> directory are converted to Gettext POT
files and placed in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pot/</span></tt> directory.</p>
<p>If you are translating for the first time then you can skip the next step. If
you need to recover your existing translations then we do the following:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>ini2po -t lang/ zu/ po-zu/</pre>
</div>
<p>Using the English .ini files found in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lang/</span></tt> and your existing Zulu
translation in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">zu/</span></tt> we create a set of PO files in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">po-zu/</span></tt>. These will
now have your translations. Please be aware that in order for the to work 100%
you need to have both English and Zulu at the same revision. If they are not,
you will have to review all translations.</p>
<p>You are now in a position to translate your recovered translations or your new
POT files.</p>
<p>Once translated you can convert back as follows:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><pre>po2ini -t lang/ po-zu/ zu/</pre>
</div>
<p>Your translations found in the Zulu PO directory, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">po-zu/</span></tt>, will be converted to .ini using the files in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lang/</span></tt> as templates and placing your newly translated .ini files in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">zu/</span></tt>.</p>
<p>To update your translations simply redo the POT creation step and make use of <a class="reference internal" href="pot2po.html"><em>pot2po</em></a> to bring your translation up-to-date.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="issues">
<span id="ini2po-issues"></span><h2>Issues<a class="headerlink" href="#issues" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>We do not extract comments from .ini files. These are sometimes needed as developers provide guidance to translators in these comments.</p>
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