pocompendium

Takes a directory of translated PO files and creates a single PO files called a
PO compendium.  This compendium can be used to review word choice conflicts or
as input during a merge using pomigrate.

Prerequisites

GNU Gettext

Usage

pocompendium [options] output.po po-directory(ies)

where:
output.po - is the name of the output PO compendium
po-directory(ies) - is one or more directories to use as input for the compendium

options:
 --invert - swap the msgid and msgstr in the input PO files
 --errors - only return those msg blocks that have conflicts
 --ignore-case - drops all msgstr's to lowercase
 --strip-accel-amp - remove all & style accelerator markers
 --strip-accel-tilde - remove all ~ style accelerator markers


Uses

1) Compendium creation - create a compendium with all you translation to use as
input during a message merge either when migrating an existing project or
starting a new one.

2) Conflicting translations - use --errors to find where you have translated an
English string differently.  Many times this is OK but often it will pick up
subtle spelling mistakes or help you to migrate older translations to a newer
choice of words

3) Conflicting word choice - use --invert and --errors to get a compendium
file that show how you have used a translated word for different English words.
You might have chosen a word that is valid for both of the English expressions
but that in the context of computers would cause confusion for the user.  You
can now easily identify these words and make changes in the underlying
translations.

Narrowing results

PO files treat slight changes in capitalisation, accelerator, punctuation and 
whitespace as different translations.  In cases 2) and 3) above it is sometimes 
useful to remove the inconsistencies so that you can focus on the errors in 
translation not on shifts in capitals.  To this end you can use the following:
 --ignore-case, --strip-accel-amp, --strip-accel-tilde

Operation

pocompendium makes use of the Gettext tool msgcat to perform its task.  It
traverses the PO directories and cat's all found PO files into the single
compendium output file.

Bugs

There are some absolute/relative path name issues