linux man page for po4a-updatepo

PO4A-UPDATEPO(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  PO4A-UPDATEPO(1)

NAME
       po4a-updatepo - update the translation (in PO format) of documentation

SYNOPSIS
       po4a-updatepo -f fmt (-m master.docE)+ (-p XX.po)+

       (XX.po are the outputs, all others are inputs)

DESCRIPTION
       The po4a (PO for anything) project goal is to ease translations (and more interestingly, the maintenance of translations) using gettext
       tools on areas where they were not expected like documentation.

       The po4a-updatepo script is in charge of updating PO files to make them reflect the changes made to the original documentation file. For
       that, it converts the documentation file to a POT file, and call msgmerge(1) on this new POT and on the provided PO files.

       It is possible to give more than one PO file (if you want to update several languages at once), and several documentation files (if you
       want to store the translations of several documents in the same PO file).

       If the master document has non-ASCII characters, it will convert the PO files to UTF-8 (if they weren't already), in order to allow non-
       standard characters in a culture independent way.

OPTIONS
       -f, --format
	   Format of the documentation you want to handle. Use the --help-format option to see the list of available formats.

       -m, --master
	   File(s) containing the master document to translate.

       -M, --master-charset
	   Charset of the files containing the document to translate. Note that all files must have the same charset.

       -p, --po
	   PO file(s) to update. If these files do not exist, they are created by po4a-updatepo.

       -o, --option
	   Extra option(s) to pass to the format plugin and other po4a internal module.  Specify each option in the 'name=value' format. See the
	   documentation of each plugin for more information about the valid options and their meanings.

       --no-previous
	   This option removes --previous from the options passed to msgmerge.	This permits to support versions of gettext earlier than 0.16.

       --previous
	   This option adds --previous to the options passed to msgmerge.  It requires gettext 0.16 or later, and is activated by default.

       --msgmerge-opt options
	   Extra options for msgmerge.

       -h, --help
	   Show a short help message.

       --help-format
	   List the documentation formats understood by po4a.

       -V, --version
	   Display the version of the script and exit.

       -v, --verbose
	   Increase the verbosity of the program.

       -d, --debug
	   Output some debugging information.

       --msgid-bugs-address email@address
	   Set the report address for msgid bugs. By default, the created POT files have no Report-Msgid-Bugs-To fields.

       --copyright-holder string
	   Set the copyright holder in the POT header. The default value is "Free Software Foundation, Inc."

       --package-name string
	   Set the package name for the POT header. The default is "PACKAGE".

       --package-version string
	   Set the package version for the POT header. The default is "VERSION".

SEE ALSO
       po4a-gettextize(1), po4a-normalize(1), po4a-translate(1), po4a(7)

AUTHORS
	Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
	Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
	Martin Quinson (mquinson#debian.org)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       Copyright 2002-2012 by SPI, inc.

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GPL (see the COPYING file).

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-17							  PO4A-UPDATEPO(1)