Questions tagged [poedit]

Poedit is free software application that allows edit gettext catalogs.

Poedit is cross-platform software and it is open source. It allows to edit *.po files and update them from *.pot catalogs file. It is used in multilingual applications that uses gettext.

As an example for poedit usage, the internationalization features of , in-which the author run command line script that extracts all gettext strings from the application files in *.pot file, then using Poedit, the author edit the terms in the file then saving it as po file in the local directory.

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cakephp, i18n .po files, How to use them correctly

I have finally managed to set up a multilingual cakephp site. Although not finished it is the first time where I can change the DEFAULT_LANGUAGE in the bootstrap and I can see the language to change. My problem right now is that I cannot understand…
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poedit shows errors that cant seem to be fixed

im having a problem with PoEdit I used a software called PO-Auto-Translator to translate a po file and once it was done i wanted to continue editing the file with poedit, when i try to save i get many errors... 04/21/14 22:39:12:…
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How to set gettext text domain in Poedit?

I need to parse my php files where is used several text-domains. I want to parse just one specific domain (others have been already translated) How to make Poedit to do that? Is it required to compile mo file bounded to some text-domain? If it is,…
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How to edit the original string column in poedit?

Hi I am using poedit editor and i am not able to edit the original string column. I want to edit few words on original string column. Thanks in Advance
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Inserting translator notes/comments in PHP files

I am working on translating an application I am developing. I have strings like: echo _("Welcome to my site"); I can then use the command line to create a .po file from all the PHP files in a particular directory by doing: find . -iname "*.php" |…
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How to run or load .po/.mo files for localization in php

I have installed poedit and running my file through it, it creates .po and .mo files for them. But I have a problem to load and use these files for translating my text. I don't know how to load or open the translated files and to show the translated…
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how to parse XML attributes with poEdit?

Possible Duplicate: poedit and xml files This subject was already addressed in poedit and xml files but my question is a little more specific. I know that poEdit can parse several languages and extract text strings. XML is not natively supported…
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GETTEXT function does not tranlsate page on local PhpStorm dev server

I found two approaches to get gettext working in PHP but neither seems to work. How do I make the translated h1 tag visible. The ouput should be Willkommen (Welcome in german = Willkommen). Gettext seems to be installed properly. The only output I…
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In PO file for Poedit, How to provide keywords list, so that a comment is automatically extracted for each keyword?

I want to put keywords and comments in my source file. the keywords documentation for gettext says: if keywordspec is of the form ‘id:argnum...,"xcomment"’, xgettext, when extracting a message from the specified argument strings, adds an extracted…
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How can I find POEdit errors

I'm getting duplicate message definition errors in POEdit and I cannot update from that catalog. POEdit doesn't show details and the line numbers in the errors don't match. How can I find what is wrong? Sat Mar 11 16:51:31 2017:…
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poEdit encoding wrong when opening po-files

I'm using poEdit at work and I'm having trouble with the encoding in po-files. I have poEdit (version 1.8.8) and a MacBook Pro (version 10.11.4). I'm trying to translate from english to swedish and there are old translations there. But the encoding…
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Poedit: Avoid Reordering of translations in .po file

I use Poedit in a project for localization. Whenever I change an entry with poedit, it reorders all elements. I think it reorders the elements according to their line number and file but since I´m working with many coders on this project, poedit…
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CakePHP localization refuses to work

I'm using CakePHP v2.5.6 and I'm following this documentation on CakePHP localization. I've read it 100 times but it still isn't working! Using the cake console i18n task, I've created the following…
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Php gettext is not displaying the translated text (after generationg the .pot and .mo files with poEdit)

I followed the folling tutorial: http://mel.melaxis.com/devblog/2005/08/06/localizing-php-web-sites-using-gettext/ about Php gettext extension (I unchecked the comment in the php.ini) The gettext is activated but it doesn't show up the translation…
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Add translation using PoEditor

I have files named en_US.po, ru_RU.po etc. Editing *.po files in PoEdit is very useful, but not while adding new strings manually. How can I easily add new translation strings which are not automatically detected by PoEdit?
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