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Posts tagged i18n
Translating with gettext overview
- Oct 15, 2021
Localization with gettext is streamlined process with responsibility distributed among original messages author, gettext tooling, and translator or translator tools. This post will help you understand extracting messages and starting new translation.
Getttext PO/POT format explained
- Oct 15, 2021
Gettext is internationalization (i18n) mechanism and library used not only in many software products, programming languages but also for translating Sphinx documentations. Gettext extracts strings marked “to-be-localized” from a source code (or a document) to plain text file with .po or .pot file extension. Let’s look at its format.