GNU Gettext is a widely used i18n system implemented in most programming languages and frameworks. It is most commonly used for internationalizing PHP, Python, C, C#, etc.

Gettext offers different resource file formats to externalize your segments. The most common human/machine-readable file format is Portable Object (.po), which Lingohub supports.

The import of POT (Portable Object Templates) files is also supported. Every imported POT file will be handled as a source language update. This means the msgid attributes will be used as segment keys and values of the segment's source language text.

Format

The value of the PO attribute msgid will be used as the segment key.
The value of msgstr will be used as the text for the segment.
If msgctxt is given, it will be used as part of the segment key. E.g.: <msgctxt>/<msgid>
The segment's title is created using themsgctxt + msgid has to be unique in every file.
Examples of placeholders are: “%s”, “%10s”, “%d”, “%3.4d”
Lingohub can handle plurals defined using themsgid_plural
One can specify a header for a PO file containing metadata.
You do not need to specify a header to work with Lingohub. We ensure that the header will be exported as it was imported.
In the PO file header, you can specify a charset: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n.
Please make sure that this indication is correct. Lingohub will try to fix the wrong character declarations.
A comment line starts with #. Lingohub will parse these comments and assign them as descriptions to the next segment.
Lingohub will not try to interpret special comments like references or flags but will leave the values unaltered.
The comment placed before the header will be imported and exported untouched.

Examples

Additional example files can be accessed here. Django

# header comment

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: LingoHub 1.6.0\n"
"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2013-05-05 19:22+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2013-04-29 10:16+0100\n"
"Last-Translator: Translator <[email protected]>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n>1;\n"

msgid "mood"
msgid_plural "%d moods"
msgstr[0] "%d mood"
msgstr[1] "%d moods"

# nplurals is defined for 0 and 1. One should be imported even if it is not present
msgid "hand"
msgid_plural "%d hands"
msgstr[0] "%d hand"

# LingoHub translation title will be "email/To"
msgctxt "email"
msgid "To"
msgstr "To"

# multiline values
msgid "slogan"
msgstr "" 
"Continuous Translation "
"Made Simple"

Gettext PO

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