PO Files

PO files use the file format of the Gettext tools. See http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

For information on KDE style PO files, see http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/kde/devel/gettext-kde/

• Headers
• Plural forms and plural form handling
• Obsolete messages
• Message Context (msgctxt)
• Language header (since gettext version 0.17)
• Previous message ID and context (#| msgid and #| msgctxt)

• normal comments

  # this is another comment

• automatic comments

  #. comment extracted from the source code

• source location comments

  #: sourcefile.xxx:35

• typecomments

  #, fuzzy

• msgidcomments

  magid "_: within msgid\n"

  Also know as KDE style comments as they are used by KDE for message disambiguation and comments to translators. (support for this is being phased out)

• obsolete messages

  #~ msgid "Blah"
  #~ msgstr "Bleeh"

• previous msgid and msgctxt

   #| msgid "previous message"

msgid "English"
msgid[af] "Engels"

(This was proposed but not yet accepted in a released version of Gettext.)