The class name is determined by appending the locale name to the resource name, separated with an underscore. The -d option is mandatory. The class is written under the specified directory.

Output file location in C# mode:

-r, --resource=RESOURCE: resource name
-l, --locale=LOCALE: locale name, either language or language_COUNTRY
-d DIRECTORY: base directory for locale dependent .dll files

The -l and -d options are mandatory. The .dll file is written in a subdirectory of the specified directory whose name depends on the locale.

Output file location in Tcl mode:

-l, --locale=LOCALE: locale name, either language or language_COUNTRY
-d DIRECTORY: base directory of .msg message catalogs

The -l and -d options are mandatory. The .msg file is written in the specified directory.

Desktop Entry mode options:

-l, --locale=LOCALE: locale name, either language or language_COUNTRY
-o, --output-file=FILE: write output to specified file
--template=TEMPLATE: a .desktop file used as a template
-d DIRECTORY: base directory of .po files
-kWORD, --keyword=WORD: look for WORD as an additional keyword
-k, --keyword: do not to use default keywords

The -l, -o, and --template options are mandatory. If -D is specified, input files are read from the directory instead of the command line arguments.

XML mode options:

-l, --locale=LOCALE: locale name, either language or language_COUNTRY
-L, --language=NAME: recognise the specified XML language
-o, --output-file=FILE: write output to specified file
--template=TEMPLATE: an XML file used as a template
-d DIRECTORY: base directory of .po files

The -l, -o, and --template options are mandatory. If -D is specified, input files are read from the directory instead of the command line arguments.

Input file syntax:

-P, --properties-input: input files are in Java .properties syntax
--stringtable-input: input files are in NeXTstep/GNUstep .strings syntax

Input file interpretation:

-c, --check: perform all the checks implied by --check-format, --check-header, --check-domain
--check-format: check language dependent format strings
--check-header: verify presence and contents of the header entry
--check-domain: check for conflicts between domain directives and the --output-file option
-C, --check-compatibility: check that GNU msgfmt behaves like X/Open msgfmt
--check-accelerators[=CHAR]: check presence of keyboard accelerators for menu items
-f, --use-fuzzy: use fuzzy entries in output

Output details:

--no-convert: don't convert the messages to UTF-8 encoding
--no-redundancy: don't pre-expand ISO C 99 <inttypes.h> format string directive macros
-a, --alignment=NUMBER: align strings to NUMBER bytes (default: 1)
--endianness=BYTEORDER: write out 32-bit numbers in the given byte order (big or little, default depends on platform)
--no-hash: binary file will not include the hash table

Informative output:

-h, --help: display this help and exit
-V, --version: output version information and exit
--statistics: print statistics about translations
-v, --verbose: increase verbosity level

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs in the bug tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gettext or by email to <bug-gettext@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

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