Re: Checking / Spellchecking of po files, Gettext-lint?

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

To: deb18n
Cc: translate-devel

On 10/12/2006, at 1:17 AM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:

> I was wondering what other translators use to verify PO files (besides
> msgfmt [1]) and to spell-check them.

I also use pofilter [3].

It has checks specific for different projects, and catches a lot of  
errors msgfmt doesn't, plus spellchecking.

It's integrated in Pootle, too. ;)
> I've found gettext-lint [2] which seems to be useful (although it  
> has not
> seen much development). It doesn't look like it's packaged in  
> Debian and I
> have made preliminary packages to provide those tools.
>
> Anyone interested in testing them?

I haven't used this package. I will be interested to see others'  
feedback on it.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

> [1] Or msgstat:
> alias msgstat='msgfmt --stat -c -o /dev/null'
>
> [2] http://gettext-lint.sourceforge.net/


[3] http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pofilter

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