GNU Gettext PO translation with Crowdin

GNU Gettext is a widely used internationalization (i18n) system that has implementations for a majority of programming languages and frameworks. It is commonly used for internationalizing PHP and Python, but it can also be found as a recommended technology for localizing games and JavaScript frameworks.

Gettext offers different resource file formats for externalizing translatable texts. The most common human- and machine-readable file format is Portable Object (.po), which Crowdin supports.

Gettext itself does not have any recommendations for variable (placeholder) syntax. The variable's syntax will vary depending on the underlying technology and can be anything from %s, %d to ${var}, {var} or [[var]]. Crowdin supports the most commonly used variable formats and will automatically detect, highlight, and validate them in the editor.

File Format Details

Sample File

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2008-09-03 10:09+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <kde-i18n-doc@kde.org>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"

#: simple string sample
msgid "Text for translation"
msgstr ""

#. sample with translated string
msgid "Text for translation"
msgstr "Translated string"

#, long string with new line
msgid ""
"Very long string.\n"
"Even longer string"
msgstr ""
"translation\n"
"translation_2"

#: plurals
#, string with plurals forms
msgid "Time: %1 second"
msgid_plural "Time: %1 seconds"
msgstr[0] "Czas: %1 sekunda"
msgstr[1] "Czas: %1 sekundy"
msgstr[2] "Czas: %1 sekund"

Translating GNU Gettext PO

Custom Attributes

Source text will be taken from the msgstr node:

"X-Crowdin-SourceKey: msgstr\n"

Comments

Comment to the string can be indicated by the following characters: # #: #. #, #| #~

#: comment to the string

msgid "Text for translation"

msgstr ""

Plurals

msgid "Time: %1 second"

msgid_plural "Time: %1 seconds"

msgstr[0] "Czas: %1 sekunda"

msgstr[1] "Czas: %1 sekundy"

msgstr[2] "Czas: %1 sekund"