yaml2po

Added in version 2.2.6.

Converts YAML localization files to Gettext PO format.

Usage

yaml2po [options] <yml> <po>
po2yaml [options] <po> <yml>

Where:

<yml>

is a valid YAML localisable file or directory of those files

<po>

is a directory of PO or POT files

Options (yaml2po):

--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 yaml, yml 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 yaml, yml 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 (po2yaml):

--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 yaml, yml formats

-t TEMPLATE, --template=TEMPLATE

read from TEMPLATE in yaml, yml 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

Check YAML format document to see to which extent the YAML format is supported.

Examples

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

First we need to create a set of POT files:

yaml2po -P lang/en pot/

All .yml files found in the lang/en 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:

yaml2po -t lang/en lang/zu po-zu/

Using the English YAML files found in lang/en and your existing Zulu translation in lang/zu we create a set of PO files in po-zu. These will now have your translations. Please be aware that in order for that 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:

po2yaml -t lang/en po-zu/ lang/zu

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

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