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intltool-0.26

Introduction to intltool

The intltool package contains an internationalization tool. This is useful for extracting translatable strings from source files, collecting the extracted strings with messages from traditional source files (<source directory>/<package>/po) and merging the translations into XML, .desktop and OAF files.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.26/intltool-0.26.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/intltool/0.26/intltool-0.26.tar.bz2
Download size: 104 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 968 KB
Estimated build time: 0.00 SBU

Installation of intltool

Install intltool by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make &&
make install

The intltool package contains intltoolize, intltool-update, intltool-extract, intltool-merge, intltool-prepare and intltool-unicodify.

Description

intltoolize

intltoolize prepares a package to use intltool.

intltool-update

intltool-update updates the po template files and merges them with the translations.

intltool-extract

intltool-extract generates header files that can be read by gettext.

intltool-merge

intltool-merge merges translated strings into various file types.

intltool-prepare

intltool-prepare updates pot files and merges them with translation files.

intltool-unicodify

intltool-unicodify is the i18n Unicode encoding utility.

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