gtranslator(1)

💖 NAME 💖

gtranslator — a comfy gettext po file editor with SO many bells and whistles, bestie, you have no idea.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gtranslator [ PO-FILE ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so gtranslator is a comfortable gettext po file editor, and it comes with so many features it's honestly giving main character energy: special char featured editing, plural forms view, div. charset support, comfortable prefs, list view of messages, a regular expression based search function, compile/update possibilities and much much more. 💅

And of course, all the standard features of a good application are present too — DnD, session support, supplement files for mime types and menu items. obviously. we don't skimp. 🎀

Instant comment view, a comfortable quick navigation messages table with customizable colors, colorschemes, UTF-8 support, a high level of preferizabilation and a personal learn buffer/translation memory with autotranslation capabilities — those are the main features of gtranslator, on top of just comfortably editing the translation entries. it's literally the whole package. 🌸

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --help — shows you a little help autogenerated by GNOME. that's it, that's the option. iconic of her honestly. ✨

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🧚 LEARN BUFFER 🧚

The learn buffer is the implementation of a personal translation memory (TM) in gtranslator. gtranslator uses the UMTF format for storing its learned strings — that's a compressed XML file, which is normally quite good human readable if uncompressed. iykyk. 💜

Your learned strings are then available for the autotranslation feature of gtranslator, where gtranslator automatically fills in the corresponding and valuable translations for any message which has already been learned previously. This results in a fairly high percentage of prefilled/pretranslated messages. slay. 🫶

The common and good style of working with the learn buffer and with the autotranslation should be to learn the main po/translation files for your language.

You should learn the main po files for your language — for GNOME, for example gnumeric, nautilus, evolution or any other bigger, already translated package's po file. And guess what, you can use a new script from the gtranslator package to automatise this task a little bit: it's build-gtranslator-learn-buffer.sh, which is installed into gtranslator's scripts directory — you can see that directory by calling gtranslator -b. Then you simply execute the script with its full path and simply follow the information on the command line for it. easy. 💫

Afterwards you can simply use the "Autotranslation" menu entry from the GUI, or use the "F10" hotkey, to let gtranslator autotranslate all missing translations from your personal learn buffer. This will ease your translation work and make a big portion of the po files be pre-translated. no cap. 🔥

With a fairly big personal learn buffer of about 2 MB you can achieve many pre-translated messages for a new project/translation. that's the vibe check passing fr fr.

If you want to use the stored learn buffer contents to produce a po file with all the "learned" translations, you can also use the "export learn buffer" capability of gtranslator to get a plain po file version of the learn buffer. obsessed. 😭

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👑 LICENSE 👑

gtranslator is distributed under the GNU GPL V 3.0 or greater. periodt. 💅

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🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

Ross Golder <ross@kabalak.net>, Fatih Demir <kabalak@kabalak.net> — and previously also: Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis@kabalak.net>, Thomas Ziehmer <thomas@kabalak.net>, Kevin Vandersloot <kfv101@psu.edu> and Peeter Vois <peeter@kabalak.net>. legends, all of them. 🌟

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⭐ WEBSITE ⭐

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtranslator/

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💀 BUGREPORTS 💀

You can deliver bug reports to the gtranslator development team to our bug base via https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtranslator/issues — go tell them what's broken, they wanna know. 🐛

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the gtranslator(1) manual from the GNOME programs collection — go forth and translate, you absolute icon. 💖✨