ini2po

Converts .ini files to Gettext PO format.

Usage

ini2po [options] <ini> <po>
po2ini [options] -t <ini> <po> <ini>

Where:

<ini>

is a valid .ini file or directory of those files

<po>

is a directory of PO or POT files

Options (ini2po):

--version

show program’s version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--manpage

output a manpage based on the help

--progress=PROGRESS

show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

--errorlevel=ERRORLEVEL

show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

-i INPUT, --input=INPUT

read from INPUT in ini, isl, iss formats

-x EXCLUDE, --exclude=EXCLUDE

exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

write to OUTPUT in po, pot formats

-t TEMPLATE, --template=TEMPLATE

read from TEMPLATE in ini, isl, iss formats

-S, --timestamp

skip conversion if the output file has newer timestamp

-P, --pot

output PO Templates (.pot) rather than PO files (.po)

--duplicates=DUPLICATESTYLE

what to do with duplicate strings (identical source text): merge, msgctxt (default: ‘msgctxt’)

Options (po2ini):

--version

show program’s version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--manpage

output a manpage based on the help

--progress=PROGRESS

show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

--errorlevel=ERRORLEVEL

show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

-i INPUT, --input=INPUT

read from INPUT in po, pot formats

-x EXCLUDE, --exclude=EXCLUDE

exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

write to OUTPUT in ini, isl formats

-t TEMPLATE, --template=TEMPLATE

read from TEMPLATE in ini, isl formats

-S, --timestamp

skip conversion if the output file has newer timestamp

--threshold=PERCENT

only convert files where the translation completion is above PERCENT

--fuzzy

use translations marked fuzzy

--nofuzzy

don’t use translations marked fuzzy (default)

Formats Supported

INI files need to be organized into separate languages per file and in the following format:

[Section]
  ; a comment
  a = a string

Comment marked with the hash symbol (#) are also allowed, and the colon (:) is also accepted as key-value delimiter:

[Section]
  # another comment
  b : a string

This variants in comment marks and key-value delimiters can be mixed in one single INI file:

[Section]
; a comment
a = a string
# another comment
b : a string
c:'other example with apostrophes'
d:"example with double quotes"

The spacing between the key-value delimiter and the key, and the between the value and the key-value delimiter is not important since the converter automatically strips the blank spaces.

Note

A section must be present at the file beginning in order to get ini2po working properly. You may add it by hand at the file beginning.

Note

Strings marked with double quotes and/or apostrophes will carry these quotation marks to the generated .po file, so they will appear like:

#: [Section]c
msgid "'other example with apostrophes'"
msgstr ""

#: [Section]d
msgid "\"example with double quotes\""
msgstr ""

Examples

This example looks at roundtrip of .ini translations as well as recovery of existing translations.

First we need to create a set of POT files.

ini2po -P ini/ pot/

All .ini files found in the ini/ directory are converted to Gettext POT files and placed in the pot/ directory.

If you are translating for the first time then you can skip the next step. If you need to recover your existing translations then we do the following:

ini2po -t lang/ zu/ po-zu/

Using the English .ini files found in lang/ and your existing Zulu translation in zu/ we create a set of PO files in po-zu/. These will now have your translations. Please be aware that in order for the to work 100% you need to have both English and Zulu at the same revision. If they are not, you will have to review all translations.

You are now in a position to translate your recovered translations or your new POT files.

Once translated you can convert back as follows:

po2ini -t lang/ po-zu/ zu/

Your translations found in the Zulu PO directory, po-zu/, will be converted to .ini using the files in lang/ as templates and placing your newly translated .ini files in zu/.

To update your translations simply redo the POT creation step and make use of pot2po to bring your translation up-to-date.

Issues

We do not extract comments from .ini files. These are sometimes needed as developers provide guidance to translators in these comments.