wxl2po(1)
π wxl2po(1) β the glow-up your WiX files have been waiting for π
okay bestie, gather round, because wxl2po is about to walk into your terminal and change your whole localization game. it lives in the Translate Toolkit (version 3.19.5, iconique) and it's a command line tool, bestie. it does the thing. it takes WiX Localization files and turns them into Gettext PO localization files. no cap. π
β¨ NAME β¨
wxl2po β Convert WiX Localization (.wxl) files to Gettext PO localization files. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly. π
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
wxl2po [--version] [-h|--help] [--manpage] [--progress PROGRESS]
[--errorlevel ERRORLEVEL] [-i|--input] INPUT [-x|--exclude EXCLUDE]
[-o|--output] OUTPUT [-t|--template TEMPLATE] [-S|--timestamp]
[-P|--pot]
look at her. so many little flags. so much power. π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
the vibes, the lore, the full tea β go read:
http://docs.translatehouse.org/projects/translate-toolkit/en/latest/commands/wxl2po.html
it has examples. it has usage instructions. it's literally giving documentation. go look, i'll wait. π«Ά
π OPTIONS π
every single one, no skipping, we don't do that here:
--versionβ show the program's version number and then dip. π-h/--helpβ show this help message and exit. your girl tells you how she works and bounces.--manpageβ output a manpage based on the help. meta much? iconic.--progressβ show progress as one of:dots,none,bar,names,verbose. pick your aesthetic. π«--errorlevelβ show errorlevel as one of:none,message,exception,traceback. how dramatic do you want the yikes to be? π₯-i/--inputβ read fromINPUTinwxlformat. this is the thing you're converting, bestie.-x/--excludeβ exclude names matchingEXCLUDEfrom input paths. bye bye, not today, excluded. π-o/--outputβ write toOUTPUTinpo,potformats. this is where the magic lands.-t/--templateβ read fromTEMPLATEinwxlformat. the blueprint, the inspo board. π-S/--timestampβ skip conversion if the output file has a newer timestamp. she checks first, she doesn't do redundant work, we love a boundary-setting queen. β¨-P/--potβ output PO Templates (.pot) rather than PO files (.po). lowercase.po, uppercase.pot, know the difference, it matters. π
friendly reminder bestie: commands, flags, formats and file extensions above are all literal. copy them exactly as written or the terminal will simply not get the vision. no cap.
and that's the page!! ty for coming to my ted talk π
this delightful manual came to you courtesy of Translate Toolkit, version 3.19.5, and this page is wxl2po(1) β section 1, the user-commands section, because she's for the people. mwah. πβ¨π slay, and happy converting.
π¦ where this page comes from
- ubuntu stonking: translate-toolkit 3.19.5-1 Β· GPL-2.0-or-later
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms